Soru

Zorluk: OrtaConsolidated Billing and AWS Organizations

A research institution uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts for various departments. To optimize costs, the finance team wants to implement consolidated billing to aggregate Amazon S3 storage usage across all accounts. Which of the following describes how AWS determines S3 pricing for this organization?

  1. A
    The management account administrator must configure Service Control Policies (SCPs) to distribute the S3 volume tier discounts to specific member accounts
  2. B
    Consolidating the accounts shifts the ongoing variable costs of S3 storage from an operating expense (OpEx) to an upfront capital expense (CapEx)
  3. AWS aggregates the S3 storage usage of all accounts in the organization to compute volume pricing tier discounts on the consolidated billCevap
  4. D
    The credentials of the management account's root user must be used to access the S3 buckets in the member accounts to verify the aggregated usage

Cevap

AWS aggregates the S3 storage usage of all accounts in the organization to compute volume pricing tier discounts on the consolidated bill.
Under consolidated billing, AWS aggregates the S3 storage usage of all member accounts in the organization, treating them as a single account for the purpose of volume pricing tiers. This allows the organization to reach higher discount tiers faster than individual accounts could on their own.

Adım Adım Çözüm

1
Analyze how volume pricing tiers operate in AWS Consolidated Billing.
AWS combines the usage of all member accounts for services like Amazon S3 to calculate volume discounts.
Consolidating usage enables organizations to qualify for lower pricing tiers more quickly than separate accounts acting independently.
2
Evaluate the role of Service Control Policies (SCPs) in AWS Organizations.
SCPs are governance and authorization tools, not billing mechanisms.
This rules out the option involving SCPs for discount distribution.
3
Examine the security and cloud economics implications.
Billing consolidation does not change the operational expense model to capital expense, nor does it require root credentials.
This rules out the remaining incorrect options.

Anahtar Kavram

AWS Consolidated Billing volume pricing aggregation
Bu soruyu puanla