SAP-C02 Q226 · Cost

Question

A company has hundreds of AWS accounts. The company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage all the accounts. The company has turned on all features. A finance team has allocated a daily budget for AWS costs. The finance team must receive an email notification if the organization's AWS costs exceed 80% of the allocated budget. A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to track the costs and deliver the notifications. Which solution will meet these requirements?

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**Option A** directly satisfies every requirement with the simplest, most purpose-built approach:

1. **Hundreds of accounts in AWS Organizations**: The management account (payer account) automatically consolidates billing for all member accounts. AWS Budgets in the management account sees the **entire organization's costs** without any additional configuration.

2. **Daily budget period**: AWS Budgets natively supports **daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual** budget periods. Setting a daily period directly matches the finance team's daily budget allocation.

3. **80% threshold alert**: AWS Budgets allows you to configure **alert thresholds as a percentage** of the budgeted amount. Setting 80% is a simple configuration field.

4. **Email notification to finance team**: AWS Budgets can sen

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