SAA-C03 Q422 · Cost

Question

A company has migrated several applications to AWS in the past 3 months. The company wants to know the breakdown of costs for each of these applications. The company wants to receive a regular report that includes this information. Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

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**Option C** meets every requirement most cost-effectively:

1. **Breakdown of costs per application**: By tagging all AWS resources with a key (e.g., `cost`) and a value equal to the application's name, you create a logical grouping mechanism. When you **activate cost allocation tags** in the Billing console, AWS starts including these tags in billing data.

2. **Regular reporting**: **AWS Cost Explorer** provides a built-in, interactive dashboard where you can filter and group costs by tag. You can save reports, set date ranges, and even configure scheduled reports via email — all without any additional infrastructure.

3. **Most cost-effective**: Cost Explorer is a **native, serverless** AWS tool included with your account (with minor per-API-request charges for programmatic access). Th

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