Cost Improvement Suggestions
Question
Your company has a high number of resources hosted in their AWS account.
After a recent internal technical audit on the EC2 Instances, it's been noticed that a lot of Elastic IP's are not being used.
Which of the following can be used to give more cost improvement suggestions?
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A. B. C. D.Correct Answer: A.
This is one of the major components of the AWS Trusted Advisor.
Option B is incorrect since this is a configuration-based service.
Option C is incorrect since this is used to scan servers for vulnerabilities.
Option D is incorrect since this is used for managing systems.
For more information on AWS Trusted Advisor, please refer to the below URL-
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/trustedadvisor/best-practices/
The best option among the given choices for providing cost improvement suggestions for unused Elastic IPs in the AWS account is AWS Trusted Advisor (Option A).
AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that analyzes your AWS environment and provides recommendations in areas such as cost optimization, performance improvement, security, and fault tolerance. It monitors your AWS resources and services, and provides best practices and guidance to help you optimize your infrastructure, reduce costs, and improve performance and reliability.
AWS Trusted Advisor has checks that analyze Elastic IP (EIP) usage in your AWS account, and can identify EIPs that are not associated with any running instances or network interfaces. This check helps you to identify unused EIPs that are unnecessarily costing you money, and provides recommendations to release them to save costs.
AWS Config (Option B) is a service that provides a detailed inventory of the AWS resources in your account and helps you to monitor and track changes to your resources over time. It can also provide alerts for configuration changes that violate your organization's policies, and can help you to remediate those violations.
AWS Inspector (Option C) is a security assessment service that helps you to identify security issues in your AWS resources and applications. It analyzes the behavior of your applications and provides detailed reports on security vulnerabilities and best practices for remediation.
AWS Systems Manager (Option D) is a management service that helps you to manage your EC2 instances and other AWS resources. It provides automation capabilities to simplify common maintenance and deployment tasks, and provides a centralized dashboard for monitoring and managing your resources.
While these services are useful for managing and optimizing your AWS resources, they do not provide specific recommendations for cost optimization of unused Elastic IPs. Therefore, AWS Trusted Advisor is the best option among the given choices.