A “Member AWS account” in an AWS Organization (using consolidated billing) wants to receive a cost breakdown report (product-wise daily report) so that the analysis of cost and usage could be done. Where can this report be configured to be delivered?
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A. B. C. D.Answer: B.
As the consolidated billing feature is being used in AWS organizations, the S3 bucket where the report could be configured to be received should be owned by the master account in the organization.
Billing reports cannot be received in S3 buckets owned by member accounts.
The report delivered to the S3 bucket owned by the master account could be ingested to Amazon Athena.
After that, the data in the S3 bucket can be analyzed using standard SQL queries.
AWS Management Console is a centralized management and governance console for all the AWS products.
Option A is INCORRECT.
Option B is CORRECT.
Option C is INCORRECT.
Option D is INCORRECT.
Reference:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cur/latest/userguide/what-is-cur.html https://aws.amazon.com/athena/ https://aws.amazon.com/console/In an AWS Organization with consolidated billing, all the member accounts roll up their usage and billing charges to the designated payer account (i.e., master account) for payment. The payer account can access the billing data of all the linked accounts and generate a detailed billing report that provides insights into the cost and usage data of each linked account.
The cost breakdown report (also known as Product-wise daily report) is a billing report that breaks down the AWS costs by product or service on a daily basis. It provides detailed information on the usage and charges for each AWS service, making it easier to analyze the costs and optimize the usage.
Now, the question is about where this report can be configured to be delivered for a member account. There are a few options provided in the answer choices, and let's see which one is correct.
A. S3 bucket owned by the member account: The member account can create an S3 bucket and configure the billing report to be delivered to that bucket. However, this option is not valid for a consolidated billing scenario where the billing data is collected and paid by the payer account. Therefore, this option is not correct.
B. S3 bucket owned by the master account: The payer account (i.e., master account) can create an S3 bucket and configure the billing report to be delivered to that bucket. Since the payer account is responsible for paying the bills of all the linked accounts, it makes sense to have the billing report delivered to an S3 bucket owned by the payer account. Therefore, this option is correct.
C. AWS Management Console: The AWS Management Console is a web-based interface that allows users to access and manage their AWS resources. However, the console is not a valid option for delivering billing reports. Therefore, this option is not correct.
D. Amazon Athena: Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. However, it is not a valid option for delivering billing reports. Therefore, this option is not correct.
In summary, the correct answer is B. S3 bucket owned by the master account. The payer account can create an S3 bucket and configure the billing report to be delivered to that bucket, which allows the member accounts to access the report and analyze their cost and usage data.