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Difficulty: MediumCost Allocation Tags and Resource Tagging Strategies

A company manages a multi-account AWS environment using AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. A SysOps Administrator has deployed a Tag Policy across the organization to enforce the use of EnvType and CostCenterID tags on all newly created resources. Although the administrator has verified that resources in the member accounts are successfully tagged, these tags are not available as filters or grouping options in AWS Cost Explorer or AWS Budgets. Which two actions must the SysOps Administrator perform to resolve this issue and start tracking costs using these tags? (Select TWO.)

  1. Sign in to the AWS Organizations management account and activate the EnvType and CostCenterID tags in the Cost Allocation Tags section of the Billing console.Answer
  2. Wait up to 24 hours after activating the tags for them to appear in Cost Explorer and Billing reports.Answer
  3. C
    Sign in to each individual member account and activate the EnvType and CostCenterID tags in the Cost Allocation Tags section of the Billing console.
  4. D
    Enable AWS Config rules in the management account to automatically register the tag keys for cost reporting.
  5. E
    Modify the Tag Policy to set the enforced parameter to true for the Cost Allocation Tags billing category.

Answer

To resolve the issue, the SysOps Administrator must sign in to the AWS Organizations management account, activate the EnvType and CostCenterID tags in the Cost Allocation Tags section of the Billing console, and wait up to 24 hours for the tags to populate in Cost Explorer and Billing reports.
The correct actions are to sign in to the management account and activate the tags in the Billing console, and to wait up to 24 hours for the tags to populate. In an AWS Organizations consolidated billing environment, only the management account has the permissions to activate cost allocation tags. Additionally, AWS requires up to 24 hours to index and display cost data for newly activated tags.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Sign in to the AWS Organizations management (payer) account.
Access to the centralized billing and cost management configurations for the entire organization.
Only the management account in a consolidated billing structure has the authority to activate cost allocation tags.
2
Navigate to the Billing and Cost Management console and select Cost Allocation Tags.
Displays a list of active and inactive user-defined and AWS-defined tags.
This is where tag keys applied to resources are registered for billing reports.
3
Select the EnvType and CostCenterID tags, then choose Activate.
The tags are marked as active cost allocation tags.
Activating tags tells AWS to start tracking cost data associated with those tag keys.
4
Wait up to 24 hours for the data to process and become visible.
The tags become available as filters and grouping options in Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets.
AWS billing pipelines require time to process and update cost historical records with the newly activated tags.

Key Concept

Cost allocation tags do not automatically track cost data upon resource creation or tag policy enforcement. They must be explicitly activated in the AWS Billing console by the management (payer) account of the organization, after which it can take up to 24 hours for the data to appear in tools like Cost Explorer.
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Cost Allocation Tags and Resource Tagging Strategies

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