A company wants to identify and receive alerts for unexpected, machine-learning-detected spikes in spending related specifically to resources tagged with `CostCenter: Marketing`. The SysOps administrator must ensure that these alerts are sent to the finance team using an existing Amazon SNS topic. Which two actions must the SysOps administrator perform to meet these requirements? (Select two.)
- Create a Cost Anomaly Monitor in AWS Cost Anomaly Detection, choosing the Tag monitor type and specifying the CostCenter tag key with the Marketing value.Answer
- Create an Alert Subscription in AWS Cost Anomaly Detection, link it to the tag monitor, define the alerting threshold, and select the Amazon SNS topic.Answer
- CCreate an AWS Budget for the CostCenter tag key, filter by the Marketing value, and configure email alerts when actual costs exceed 100% of the budget.
- DCreate an Amazon EventBridge rule that triggers when AWS CloudTrail logs a Cost Explorer API call, and target the Amazon SNS topic.
- EConfigure an Amazon CloudWatch Billing Alarm for the EstimatedCharges metric, add a search expression to filter by the CostCenter tag, and associate the SNS topic.
Answer
The correct actions are to create a Cost Anomaly Monitor using the Tag monitor type with the specific cost allocation tag, and to create an Alert Subscription linked to that monitor targeting the Amazon SNS topic.
To detect machine-learning-based anomalies on specific tagged resources, a Tag monitor must be created in AWS Cost Anomaly Detection. To receive alerts from this monitor, an Alert Subscription must be configured and associated with the monitor and an SNS topic.
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Key Concept
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection uses machine learning to monitor cost data, using Cost Anomaly Monitors to detect issues and Alert Subscriptions to route alerts.