SAP-C02 Q586 · Cost

Question

A company uses AWS Organizations and tags every resource with a BusinessUnit tag. They want to allocate cloud costs by business unit and visualize them. What should the architect do?

Accepted Answer

Option A satisfies every requirement systematically:

1. **Tag Activation in Management Account**: Cost allocation tags must be **activated** in the **management (payer) account** of AWS Organizations. Simply tagging resources is not enough — the tag must be explicitly activated as a cost allocation tag in the Billing console. The company already tags resources with BusinessUnit, so the architect just needs to activate it.

2. **Cost and Usage Report (CUR) to S3**: CUR is the most comprehensive and granular billing dataset AWS provides. It includes all cost and usage data across all member accounts in the organization. Delivering it to S3 creates a centralized, queryable data lake for billing data.

3. **Athena for Querying**: Amazon Athena can directly query the CUR data stored in S3 usin

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