AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 Practice Question
Finance stakeholders for a global enterprise recently purchased several 3-year Partial Upfront Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RIs). When they review the daily view in AWS Cost Explorer, they see a large cost spike on the RI purchase day, which prevents them from understanding the true per-day cost of running EC2. The solutions architect must create a daily Cost Explorer report that evenly spreads both the upfront and recurring RI fees across the entire month so the team can compare the effective per-day compute cost with other services-without exporting the data outside AWS. Which Cost Explorer cost metric should the architect choose under the Aggregate costs by setting to meet this requirement?
The Cost Explorer metric that distributes both the upfront and recurring costs of Reserved Instances or Savings Plans across each day in the selected period is Amortized costs. When Amortized costs is selected, Cost Explorer combines the unblended costs with the amortized portion of any upfront or monthly reservation fees and shows a smoothed daily effective rate, eliminating the one-day spike seen with unblended or blended views.
Blended costs average usage charges across linked accounts but still show RI upfront fees on the purchase date. Unblended costs list usage charges exactly as billed and place the full RI upfront fee on the transaction day. Net unblended costs apply discounts but, like unblended costs, do not amortize RI fees. Therefore, only the Amortized costs metric satisfies the finance team's need to view a realistic per-day cost for RI commitments.
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