SAA-C03 Q175 · Cost

Question

A company wants to run its experimental workloads in the AWS Cloud. The company has a budget for cloud spending. The company's CFO is concerned about cloud spending accountability for each department. The CFO wants to receive notification when the spending threshold reaches 60% of the budget. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Answer A meets every requirement:

1. **Accountability per department** → **Cost allocation tags** allow you to tag AWS resources with key-value pairs like `Department: Engineering` or `Department: Marketing`. When activated in the Billing console, these tags appear in Cost and Usage Reports, enabling per-department cost tracking and accountability.

2. **Notification at 60% threshold** → **AWS Budgets** allows you to create budget amounts (e.g., $10,000/month) and set **alert thresholds** at any percentage. You configure an alert at 60% of the budget, and AWS Budgets sends notifications via Amazon SNS or email when actual or forecasted spending crosses that threshold.

3. **Budget for cloud spending** → AWS Budgets supports cost budgets (track dollar spend), usage budgets (track resource

📖 Explanation

✅ Correct Answer

❌ Wrong Answers

📘 Key Concepts

⚙️ Operations

💰 Cost

🎯 Exam Tips