A company wants to optimize the costs of their existing EC2 instances. They suspect many instances are over-provisioned (e.g., using an m5.4xlarge when an m5.large would suffice). Which TWO AWS services can help identify these over-provisioned resources? (Select TWO.)

Answer options:

AWS Compute Optimizer

AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Systems Manager

AWS Budgets

How to approach this question

Identify services that provide cost optimization recommendations. Compute Optimizer and Trusted Advisor both do this.

Full Answer

AWS Compute Optimizer, AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Compute Optimizer recommends optimal AWS resources for your workloads to reduce costs. AWS Trusted Advisor provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices, including cost optimization.

Common mistakes

Selecting Cost Explorer, which visualizes billing data but doesn't recommend instance right-sizing.

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