AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)Billing, Pricing, and SupportEasy
A consultant needs to produce a cost estimate for a proposed multi-tier application that has not yet been deployed on AWS, in order to present pricing options to a client before purchasing. Which tool is designed specifically for this pre-deployment estimating task?
- AAWS Cost Explorer
- BAWS Pricing Calculator
- CAWS Cost and Usage Report
- DAWS Budgets
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Correct answer: B. AWS Pricing Calculator
AWS Pricing Calculator lets users build cost estimates for AWS services before deployment, without needing existing usage data, making it ideal for proposals and planning. Cost Explorer, Budgets, and the Cost and Usage Report all analyze actual historical or ongoing usage, not hypothetical future workloads.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Cost Explorer visualizes and analyzes actual historical spend, requiring existing usage.
- C. The Cost and Usage Report provides detailed historical billing data, not future estimates.
- D. Budgets tracks and alerts on spend against a defined threshold for existing usage.
AWS Pricing Calculator
A free tool for estimating the cost of AWS services for planned architectures before they are deployed.
- No AWS account or existing usage required
- Supports exporting estimates for proposals
- Different from Cost Explorer, which analyzes actual past spend
Memory trick: Calculator predicts, Explorer reflects