A company has a large fleet of Amazon EBS volumes. The finance team has noticed that EBS costs are steadily increasing. The Solutions Architect discovers that many EBS volumes are unattached, and others are attached but have had less than 1 IOPS per day for the last month. What is the MOST automated way to identify and optimize these resources?

Answer options:

Write a custom Python script using Boto3 to iterate through all volumes and check CloudWatch metrics.

Use AWS Cost Explorer to filter by EBS volume ID.

Use AWS Trusted Advisor to identify unattached and underutilized EBS volumes.

Enable S3 Intelligent-Tiering for the EBS snapshots.

How to approach this question

Identify the AWS service that provides automated cost optimization recommendations.

Full Answer

C.Use AWS Trusted Advisor to identify unattached and underutilized EBS volumes.✓ Correct

AWS Trusted Advisor automatically inspects your AWS environment and provides recommendations for cost optimization, including identifying unattached EBS volumes and volumes with very low activity (underutilized).

Common mistakes

Choosing custom scripts when a native managed service exists.

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