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Difficulty: HardCost Allocation Tags and Resource Tagging Strategies

A company manages a multi-account AWS environment using AWS Organizations with consolidated billing. A SysOps Administrator has successfully deployed a Tag Policy across all member accounts to ensure that resources are tagged with the key `InitiativeID`. Although member accounts have started applying the tag to EC2 instances and S3 buckets, the `InitiativeID` tag is not yet appearing as a filtering option in Cost Explorer. Which of the following actions must the SysOps Administrator perform to resolve this issue and begin tracking costs by this tag? (Select TWO.)

  1. Log in to the management account of the organization, navigate to the Billing and Cost Management console, and activate the `InitiativeID` tag under Cost Allocation Tags.Answer
  2. Wait for up to 24 hours after activation for the tag key to become active and start appearing in Cost Explorer.Answer
  3. C
    Navigate to the Billing and Cost Management console within each member account and individually activate the `InitiativeID` tag.
  4. D
    Define a Tag Policy in AWS Organizations with the `InitiativeID` key, as this automatically registers and activates the tag for cost allocation.
  5. E
    Configure an AWS Budgets alert filtered by the `InitiativeID` tag, which will automatically trigger the activation of the tag in Cost Explorer.

Answer

Log in to the management account of the organization to activate the tag in the Billing and Cost Management console, and wait up to 24 hours for the tag to appear in Cost Explorer.
The correct options state that the administrator must log in to the management account to activate the `InitiativeID` tag in the Billing and Cost Management console, and wait up to 24 hours for the change to propagate. Under consolidated billing in AWS Organizations, only the management account has the authority to activate cost allocation tags, and these tags do not appear immediately in Cost Explorer due to the processing time required by AWS Billing.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Locate the account that has administrative control over consolidated billing.
Identify the management (payer) account in the AWS Organization.
Only the management account has the permissions to activate cost allocation tags for the entire organization.
2
Navigate to the Cost Allocation Tags interface.
Go to the Billing and Cost Management console in the management account, select Cost Allocation Tags, search for `InitiativeID`, and activate it.
Applying tags to resources is not enough; they must be explicitly activated in the Billing console to be processed as cost allocation tags.
3
Allow time for AWS to process the cost data.
Wait up to 24 hours for the activation to propagate.
AWS processes billing data in batches, and cost allocation tag activation takes up to 24 hours to reflect in Cost Explorer and billing reports.

Key Concept

Cost allocation tags must be activated in the Billing and Cost Management console of the management account, and they take up to 24 hours to appear in billing reports and Cost Explorer.
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Cost Allocation Tags and Resource Tagging Strategies

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