Question 371 - SAP-C02 discussion

The correct answer is B)

B) This solution meets the requirements because it uses AWS Cost Anomaly Detection, which is a feature of AWS Cost Management that uses machine learning to identify and alert on anomalous spend and usage patterns. By configuring a monitor type of AWS Service and applying a filter of Amazon EC2, the solution can track the EC2 usage as a metric across the organization's accounts. By configuring an alert subscription with a threshold of 10%, the solution can notify the architecture team via email or Amazon SNS if the EC2 usage is more than 10% higher than the average usage for the last 30 days12

A) This solution is incorrect because it uses AWS Budgets, which is a feature of AWS Cost Management that helps to plan and track costs and usage. However, AWS Budgets does not support usage type of EC2 running hours as a budget type. The only supported usage types are Amazon S3 storage, Amazon EC2 RI utilization, and Amazon EC2 RI coverage. Moreover, AWS Budgets does not support setting the budget amount based on the reported average usage from AWS Cost Explorer. The budget amount has to be a fixed or variable value34

C) This solution is incorrect because it uses AWS Trusted Advisor, which is a feature of AWS Premium Support that provides recommendations to follow best practices for cost optimization, security, performance, and fault tolerance. However, AWS Trusted Advisor does not support configuring custom alerts based on EC2 usage or average usage for the last 30 days. The only supported alerts are based on predefined checks and thresholds that are applied to all services and resources in the account56

D) This solution is incorrect because it uses Amazon Detective, which is a service that helps to analyze and visualize security data to investigate potential security issues. However, Amazon Detective does not support configuring EC2 usage anomaly alerts based on average usage for the last 30 days. The only supported alerts are based on GuardDuty findings and other security-related events that are detected by machine learning models78

1: AWS Cost Anomaly Detection - Amazon Web Services 2: Getting started with AWS Cost Anomaly Detection 3: Set Custom Cost and Usage Budgets -- AWS Budgets -- Amazon Web Services 4: Creating a budget - AWS Cost Management 5: AWS Trusted Advisor 6: AWS Trusted Advisor - AWS Support 7: Security Investigation Visualization - Amazon Detective - AWS 8: What is Amazon Detective? - Amazon Detective