AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 Practice Question
A financial team at a growing company needs to generate predictive spend reports for new applications set to launch the next quarter while also keeping an eye on ongoing services. Which service within the cloud provider platform should be utilized by the Solutions Architect to fulfill this requirement for cost-forecast reporting?
AWS Cost Explorer is the right choice because it can display historical cost and usage data and automatically produce machine-learning-based forecasts for up to 12 months, allowing the finance team to visualize expected spend for both new and existing workloads.
AWS Budgets can send alerts and scheduled reports that include forecasted spend, but its primary purpose is enforcing budget thresholds rather than generating interactive exploratory forecasts.
The AWS Billing Dashboard offers only a simple current-month forecast view.
The legacy Detailed Billing Report (now superseded by the Cost & Usage Report) provides raw line-item data but no built-in forecasting capability.
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