AWS Billing Data Management: Simple Setup for Publishing to Amazon S3 Bucket

Publishing AWS Billing Information to Amazon S3 Bucket

Question

As an AWS system administrator working in a startup, you need to publish the AWS billing information to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket.

The billing data should include the cost and usage of each product in CSV format and should be refreshed daily.

How would you implement this in the easiest way?

Answers

Explanations

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A. B. C. D.

Correct Answer: A.

Option A is CORRECT because Cost and Usage Reports provide the required data to an S3 bucket.

Users can choose the report granularity to be hourly, daily or monthly.

Option B is incorrect because, in AWS Cost Explorer, users cannot register an S3 bucket to receive the billing data.

Option C is incorrect because a savings plan cannot provide daily cost and usage data.

Option D is incorrect because there is no cost and usage budget plan in AWS Budgets.

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References:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cur/latest/userguide/what-is-cur.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cur/latest/userguide/cur-create.html

To publish the AWS billing information to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket, the easiest way would be to create Cost and Usage Reports and deliver them to an S3 bucket using the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. This can be achieved by selecting the S3 bucket to which the billing data should be delivered and then configuring the Cost and Usage Reports.

Option A is the correct answer. Here's a more detailed explanation of why the other options are incorrect:

Option B suggests using the AWS Cost Explorer console to register an S3 bucket to receive the daily cost and usage information. However, this option is not accurate since the Cost Explorer is mainly used for analyzing the cost and usage of AWS resources.

Option C proposes registering a savings plan to publish the daily cost and usage data to a custom S3 bucket using the AWS Saving Plans console. However, this option is not relevant since savings plans are mainly used to reduce the cost of using AWS resources.

Option D suggests using AWS Budgets to create a cost and usage budget plan that automatically transfers the billing data to an S3 bucket. However, this option is not accurate since AWS Budgets are mainly used for setting custom cost and usage budgets to track resource utilization and cost.