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    PracticeAWS Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C02)AWS Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 Practice Exam 4Question 40
    Easy1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 3.5: Cost OptimizationCost OptimizationEBSTrusted Advisor

    AWS SAP-C02 · Question 40 · Domain 3.5: Cost Optimization

    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:

    A.

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

    B.

    Use AWS Cost Explorer to filter by EBS volume ID.

    C.

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

    D.

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