A SysOps Administrator is analyzing how Reserved Instance discounts are allocated to Amazon EC2 instances across accounts in the company's consolidated bill. Which AWS tool will provide the details necessary to understand the billing charges?
Suggested Answer:D🗳️
Consolidated billing has the following benefits: ✑ One bill ג€" You get one bill for multiple accounts. ✑ Easy tracking ג€" You can track the charges across multiple accounts and download the combined cost and usage data. ✑ Combined usage ג€" You can combine the usage across all accounts in the organization to share the volume pricing discounts and Reserved Instance discounts. This can result in a lower charge for your project, department, or company than with individual standalone accounts. For more information, see Volume Discounts. ✑ No extra fee ג€" Consolidated billing is offered at no additional cost. Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/consolidated-billing.html
AWS Organizations provides features for managing multiple AWS accounts within an organization. It helps you centrally manage policies, apply security controls, and consolidate billing across multiple accounts.
By using AWS Organizations, you can access detailed billing and cost allocation reports that provide insights into how costs are allocated across accounts and services within your organization. This includes information on Reserved Instance usage and discounts.
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The AWS Cost and Usage report provides detailed information about your AWS usage and associated costs, including Reserved Instance discounts. It allows you to analyze and break down your costs by various dimensions, such as account, region, service, and more. This tool is particularly useful for gaining insights into how Reserved Instance discounts are applied and allocated across your accounts, enabling you to understand your billing charges in detail.
B. is correct because AWS Org. is already supposed to be set up based on consolidated billings. so required tool is AWS Cost and Usage report to understand billing charges......
D will create "consolidation" but will not answer : Which AWS tool will provide the details necessary to understand the billing charges?
But with organization enable you can use Cost and usage : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cur/latest/userguide/what-is-cur.html
Consolidated billing users
If you use the consolidated billing feature in AWS Organizations, the Amazon S3 bucket that you designate to receive the billing reports must be owned by the master account in your organization. You can't receive billing reports in a bucket that is owned by a member account. If you use consolidated billing, you can also have your costs broken down by member account.
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For billing purposes, the consolidated billing feature of AWS Organizations treats all the accounts in the organization as one account. This means that all accounts in the organization can receive the hourly cost benefit of Reserved Instances that are purchased by any other account.
Using the AWS Cost & Usage Report to understand your RIs
One of the core benefits of the AWS Cost & Usage Report is the wealth of RI-related data that is made available to you.
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