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AWS SAA-C03 · Question 48 · Domain 4.2: Compute Cost Optimization

A company has a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. They want to ensure they are not over-provisioning resources. They need a service that analyzes historical CPU, memory, and network utilization to provide recommendations for right-sizing the instances. <br/><br/>Which AWS service should they use?

Answer options:

A.

AWS Trusted Advisor

B.

AWS Compute Optimizer

C.

AWS Cost Explorer

D.

Amazon CloudWatch

How to approach this question

Match 'right-sizing recommendations based on historical metrics' to 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.

Common mistakes

Choosing Trusted Advisor. While it has a 'Low Utilization EC2' check, Compute Optimizer is the dedicated, advanced tool for right-sizing.

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