AWS AWS Cost Management 3

Question 1

What is the difference between an All Upfront and No Upfront Reserved Instance?

Accepted Answer

All Upfront pays everything at purchase for the largest discount; No Upfront pays monthly with a smaller discount

Answer

All Upfront pays the full cost at purchase for the deepest discount, while No Upfront spreads payments with a smaller discount.

Question 2

Which feature of Reserved Instances allows changing instance size within the same family while keeping the discount?

Accepted Answer

Regional benefit / instance size flexibility

Answer

Regional RIs provide instance size flexibility so the discount applies across sizes in the same family.

Question 3

What does AWS Compute Optimizer primarily recommend?

Accepted Answer

Optimal instance types and sizes based on utilization metrics

Answer

Compute Optimizer analyzes utilization to recommend right-sized EC2, EBS, Lambda, and ASG configurations.

Question 4

Which S3 feature automatically moves objects to cheaper storage tiers based on access patterns with no retrieval fees?

Accepted Answer

S3 Intelligent-Tiering

Answer

S3 Intelligent-Tiering moves data between access tiers automatically without retrieval charges.

Question 5

A team wants to prevent a single account from spending beyond a limit. Which combination is most appropriate?

Accepted Answer

AWS Budgets with a budget action to apply an IAM/SCP restriction

Answer

Budget actions can automatically apply IAM or SCP controls when a budget threshold is breached.

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