A company has hundreds of EC2 instances. The finance team noticed that EC2 costs are very high. They suspect many instances are over-provisioned. Which AWS service provides machine learning-backed recommendations to right-size EC2 instances?

Answer options:

AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Compute Optimizer

AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Budgets

How to approach this question

Match 'machine learning-backed recommendations' and 'right-size EC2' to Compute Optimizer.

Full Answer

B.AWS Compute Optimizer✓ Correct

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, which only flags instances with very low CPU, rather than providing specific ML-based right-sizing recommendations.

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