Exam AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional SAP-C02 topic 1 question 79 discussion

The correct solution is A. Creating an AWS Cost and Usage Report for the organization and defining tags and cost categories in the report will allow for detailed cost reporting for the different companies that have been consolidated into one organization. By creating a table in Amazon Athena and an Amazon QuickSight dataset based on the Athena table, the finance team will be able to easily query and generate reports on the costs for all the companies. The dataset can then be shared with the finance team for them to use for their reporting needs. Option B is not correct because it does not provide a way to query and generate reports on the costs for all the companies. Option C is not correct because it only provides spending information from the AWS Price List Query API and does not provide detailed cost reporting for the different companies. Option D is not correct because it only uses the AWS Price List Query API and does not provide a way to query and generate reports on the costs for all the companies.

I can customize reporting in Cost Explorer but cannot find how to do templates.

A. Create an AWS Cost and Usage Report for the organization. Define tags and cost categories in the report. Create a table in Amazon Athena. Create an Amazon QuickSight dataset based on the Athena table. Share the dataset with the finance team.

A = correct B = there isn't specialized templates in AWS Cost Explorer. It provides default reports, but also enables you to change the filters and constraints used to create the reports. You can save the reports that you made as a bookmark, download the CSV file, or save them as a report C & D = AWS Price List provides a catalog of the products and prices for AWS services that you can purchase on AWS, not cost of your resources

I prefer A

its n A

I vote A mostly because there is no template option in Cost Explorer and A is the only other option which covers the scenario

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/query-and-visualize-aws-cost-and-usage-data-using-amazon-athena-and-amazon-quicksight/

A. Create an AWS Cost and Usage Report for the organization.

A is correct B: no such template for cost exporer CD: Price List Query API is for list price, not for usage