AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 Practice Question
A company plans to run a steady-state analytics workload on 60 c7a.2xlarge Linux instances in a single Region for at least 3 years. The finance team requests a single AWS Pricing Calculator estimate that clearly shows the monthly cost of running the workload On-Demand and the cost after purchasing a 3-year No-Upfront Compute Savings Plan. The solutions architect must minimise manual effort and ensure that both cost models appear side-by-side in the calculator's summary view so the finance team can immediately see the savings. Which approach in AWS Pricing Calculator meets these requirements MOST efficiently?
Create a bill scenario, import last month's usage, add a 3-year Compute Savings Plan to the scenario, and rely on the bill scenario comparison view to show savings.
Create an On-Demand EC2 service in one group, duplicate the service into a second group, change the duplicated service's Purchase option to a 3-year No-Upfront Compute Savings Plan, and compare the two groups in the summary page.
Export an On-Demand estimate as CSV, edit the PurchaseOption field to Compute Savings Plan, re-import it as a new estimate, and compare the two CSV files externally.
Set the estimate's rate type to "After discounts and purchase commitments" so the calculator automatically shows Savings Plan pricing next to the On-Demand total.
The calculator's group feature lets you model alternative architectures or purchase options inside one estimate and then compare their subtotals on the summary page. By duplicating the EC2 workload into a second group and changing only the Purchase option from On-Demand to a 3-year No-Upfront Compute Savings Plan, the architect produces two comparable cost lines in a single view with minimal effort. Using the After-discounts rate type (or creating a bill scenario or exporting/importing CSV files) either hides the On-Demand baseline or requires extra work outside the calculator, so those methods do not satisfy the requirement to display both scenarios side-by-side within one estimate.
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