AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)Cloud ConceptsMedium
A company is designing a new workload on AWS and wants to estimate the projected monthly and annual costs of various service combinations, such as EC2 instance types, storage options, and data transfer, before deploying any resources. Which AWS tool is specifically designed for this purpose?
- AAWS Cost Explorer
- BAWS Budgets
- CAWS Pricing Calculator
- DAWS Trusted Advisor
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Correct answer: C. AWS Pricing Calculator
The AWS Pricing Calculator allows users to create cost estimates for AWS services before deployment by configuring proposed architectures and service combinations, making it ideal for planning and budgeting new workloads.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. AWS Cost Explorer analyzes historical and current spending patterns for resources already in use, not future estimates for undeployed architectures.
- B. AWS Budgets tracks and alerts on spending against set thresholds for existing usage, not pre-deployment cost estimation.
- D. AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations for cost optimization, security, and performance on existing resources, not upfront cost estimation.
AWS Pricing Calculator
A free tool that allows users to create detailed cost estimates for AWS solutions by configuring services, quantities, and usage patterns before deployment.
- Used for pre-deployment planning and budgeting
- Supports comparing different architecture configurations
- Does not require an AWS account to use
Memory trick: Pricing Calculator = plan before you spend.