SAA-C03 Q146 · Cost

Question

A company runs its production workload on Amazon EC2 instances with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. A solutions architect needs to analyze the current EBS volume cost and to recommend optimizations. The recommendations need to include estimated monthly saving opportunities. Which solution will meet these requirements?

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**AWS Compute Optimizer** is the purpose-built AWS service for this exact use case. Here's why it satisfies every requirement:

1. **Analyze current EBS volume cost**: Compute Optimizer uses machine learning to analyze CloudWatch metrics (IOPS, throughput, latency) from your EBS volumes and determines whether they are over-provisioned, under-provisioned, or optimized.

2. **Recommend optimizations**: It provides specific recommendations such as changing volume type (e.g., from gp2 to gp3, or from io1 to gp3), resizing volume IOPS, or adjusting throughput settings.

3. **Estimated monthly saving opportunities**: Compute Optimizer explicitly calculates and displays estimated monthly savings in dollars for each recommendation, which is a key differentiator from other services.

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