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A company is planning to migrate their on-premises database workloads to Amazon Aurora. Before any resources are launched, they need to generate an estimate of the expected monthly charges. Additionally, once the workloads are active, they want to receive automated email notifications if their actual costs exceed their monthly budget.

Which AWS Billing and Cost Management tools should the company use to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

  1. AWS Pricing CalculatorAnswer
  2. AWS BudgetsAnswer
  3. C
    AWS Cost Explorer
  4. D
    AWS Billing Conductor

Answer

The correct tools are the AWS Pricing Calculator for estimating costs before deployment, and AWS Budgets for setting up threshold alerts for active resources.
The AWS Pricing Calculator is the correct tool for estimating the costs of services prior to launch. AWS Budgets is the correct tool for setting up budget thresholds and receiving proactive email alerts when those thresholds are crossed.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the pre-deployment requirement: estimating costs before launching Amazon Aurora.
The AWS Pricing Calculator is selected as it is specifically designed for modeling and estimating potential cloud spending before resources exist.
Estimating costs before launching resources requires a planning tool rather than an active monitoring or analysis tool.
2
Identify the post-deployment requirement: receiving automated notifications when spending exceeds a threshold.
AWS Budgets is selected because it enables setting custom cost limits and sending proactive email notifications based on actual or forecasted spending.
Proactive alerting on threshold breaches requires AWS Budgets, whereas other tools like AWS Cost Explorer are focused on historical analysis and visualization.

Key Concept

Differentiating between proactive budgeting/alerting tools and pre-deployment cost estimation tools in AWS.
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AWS Billing and Cost Management Tools

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