SAA-C03 Q331 · Cost

Question

A company wants to visualize its AWS spend and resource usage. The company wants to use an AWS managed service to provide visual dashboards. Which solution will meet these requirements?

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**Answer A** satisfies both requirements:

1. **Visualize AWS spend and resource usage**: AWS Data Exports (formerly Cost and Usage Reports / CUR) provides the most comprehensive and detailed dataset of AWS spending and resource usage. It includes line-item details for every charge, resource IDs, pricing information, and usage quantities.

2. **AWS managed service with visual dashboards**: Amazon QuickSight is AWS's fully managed business intelligence (BI) service specifically designed to create interactive visual dashboards. QuickSight even has a pre-built **Cost Intelligence Dashboard** template that can consume Data Exports data.

**How this works step-by-step**:
- Configure AWS Data Exports to deliver cost and usage data to an S3 bucket
- QuickSight connects to this data (often via Ama

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