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AWS SAP-C02 · Question 66 · Domain 3.5: Cost Optimization
A company wants to optimize their AWS costs. They have identified several Amazon EC2 instances that have average CPU utilization below 5% and network I/O below 1 MB over the last 30 days. They also have several Amazon RDS instances with zero database connections over the last 14 days. Which TWO AWS services can automatically identify these specific underutilized resources? (Select TWO)
A company wants to optimize their AWS costs. They have identified several Amazon EC2 instances that have average CPU utilization below 5% and network I/O below 1 MB over the last 30 days. They also have several Amazon RDS instances with zero database connections over the last 14 days. Which TWO AWS services can automatically identify these specific underutilized resources? (Select TWO)
Answer options:
A.
AWS Trusted Advisor
B.
AWS Compute Optimizer
C.
AWS Cost Explorer
D.
AWS Budgets
E.
AWS Systems Manager Inventory
F.
Amazon Macie
How to approach this question
Identify the two services that provide resource-level optimization recommendations based on utilization metrics.
Full Answer
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Compute Optimizer
AWS Trusted Advisor has specific cost optimization checks for 'Low Utilization Amazon EC2 Instances' and 'Idle Amazon RDS DB Instances'. AWS Compute Optimizer analyzes CloudWatch metrics to identify underprovisioned or overprovisioned compute resources.
Common mistakes
Choosing Cost Explorer, which is for financial analysis, not technical resource right-sizing.
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