SAP-C02 Q34 · Cost

Question

A company has created an OU in AWS Organizations for each of its engineering teams. Each OU owns multiple AWS accounts. The organization has hundreds of AWS accounts. A solutions architect must design a solution so that each OU can view a breakdown of usage costs across its AWS accounts. Which solution meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

**Answer B: Create a CUR from the Organizations management account and visualize via QuickSight.**

**Step-by-step reasoning:**

1. **CUR can only be created from the management (payer) account**: AWS Cost and Usage Reports are generated at the organization's management account level. This is the only account that has consolidated billing visibility across ALL member accounts in the organization. Individual member accounts cannot see other accounts' costs.

2. **Single CUR covers all accounts**: A single CUR from the management account contains detailed line-item billing data for every member account, tagged with the account ID. This means one report can serve all OUs — you don't need separate reports per OU.

3. **QuickSight enables OU-level filtering**: Amazon QuickSight can ingest the C

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