A company has hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances. The finance team suspects that many instances are over-provisioned (e.g., running on m5.2xlarge when a t3.medium would suffice). Which AWS service provides automated recommendations to right-size these instances based on historical utilization metrics?

Answer options:

AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Compute Optimizer

AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Systems Manager

How to approach this question

Match 'right-size instances' and 'historical utilization metrics' with AWS Compute Optimizer.

Full Answer

B.AWS Compute Optimizer✓ Correct

AWS Compute Optimizer

AWS Compute Optimizer recommends optimal AWS resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance by using machine learning to analyze historical utilization metrics. Over-provisioning resources can lead to unnecessary infrastructure cost, and Compute Optimizer identifies these exact scenarios.

Common mistakes

Choosing Trusted Advisor. While it has cost checks, Compute Optimizer is the purpose-built tool for right-sizing compute resources.

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