What is the difference between cost Explorer and the AWS TCO calculator?

After completing this unit, you’ll be able to:

• Explain the features of AWS Budgets.
• Explain the features of AWS Cost Explorer.
• Explain the features of AWS Cost and Usage Reports.
• Describe the benefits of the AWS Total Cost of Ownership Calculator.
• Describe the benefits of the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator.

Imagine your organization recently migrated to the AWS Cloud, and you are looking for ways to improve cost awareness. With AWS Cost Management tools, you can access detailed information related to your AWS costs and usage, analyze your cost drivers and usage trends, and take action on your insights.

To start exploring AWS Cost Management tools, you can access the Billing & Cost Management Dashboard in the AWS Console. From there, you can access AWS Budgets, AWS Cost Explorer, and the AWS Cost & Usage Report.

AWS Budgets

In AWS Application Deployment and Monitoring, you learn that you can use Amazon CloudWatch to set up an alert that notifies you when your AWS spend exceeds a specified threshold. AWS Budgets allows you to do the same thing but with more granularity and visibility.

The AWS Budgets Dashboard is your hub for creating, tracking, and inspecting your budgets. It enables you to create several types of budgets.

• Cost budgets to monitor costs against a specified dollar amount.
• Usage budgets to monitor usage of one or more specified usage types.
• Reservation budgets to track Reserved Instance utilization and coverage.
• Savings Plans budgets to track Savings Plans utilization and coverage.

Like the CloudWatch alarm method, you can set budgets to send alerts when you exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted cost or usage amount.

AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Cost Explorer enables you to view and analyze your AWS costs and usage. It provides several default reports to get started, including:

• Monthly or daily costs by service
• Monthly EC2 running hours costs and usage
• Reserved Instance utilization and coverage
• Savings Plans reports

You can choose from different types of graphs to display data visually, apply filters for granular detail, and save your custom reports.

With AWS Cost Explorer, you can:

• View data for up to the last 13 months.
• Forecast how much you're likely to spend for the next 3 months.
• Get recommendations for Amazon EC2 rightsizing and reservation purchases.
• Identify areas that need follow up.
• See trends that you can use to understand your costs.

AWS Cost and Usage Report

The AWS Cost and Usage Report provides the most detailed information about your AWS costs and usage. You can generate reports at a daily or hourly level of granularity.

When creating a report, you specify an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket where the report will be stored in CSV format. AWS updates the report at least once per day. It can be downloaded at any time from your bucket.

You can configure your Cost and Usage Reports to integrate with Amazon Athena (a serverless interactive query service), Amazon Redshift, or Amazon QuickSite (a business intelligence service).

AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

The AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator allows you to compare the cost of running applications in an on-premises or traditional hosting environment to running the applications with AWS.

The TCO Calculator provides a detailed set of reports you can use for executive presentations. The assumptions used to produce the estimate can be modified to ensure it is accurate for your business needs.

AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

Use the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator to estimate your monthly bill. The calculator provides a per-service cost breakdown, as well as an aggregate monthly estimate. You can also use the calculator to see a sample estimation and breakdown of costs for common solutions, like a website or media application.

In the next unit, you examine AWS Organizations and consolidated billing.

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QUESTION:103What best describes the difference between the TCO Calculator and the Cost Explorer?Choose the Correctanswer:A. The TCO Calculator help you analyze current AWS usage charges; the Cost Explorer helps youestimate the cost savings of using AWS.B. The TCO Calculator helps you estimate the cost savings of using AWS; the Cost Explorer help youanalyze current AWS usage charges.C. The Cost Explorer helps you calculate hourly EC2 Usage cost; the TCO Calculator is a price list foreach AWS service.D. The Cost Explorer is a price list for each AWS service; the TCO Calculator helps you calculate hourlyEC2 Usage cost.Answer: BExplanation:The TCO calculator is a free tool provided by AWS that allows you to estimate the cost savings ofusing AWS vs. using an on-premises data center. The Cost Explorer is a free tool that allows you toview charges of your cost (helps you analyze where you are spending money).

QUESTION:104What does TCO stand for?

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“Best Material, Great Results”.37Explanation:The AWS Trusted Advisor program will analyze your account with check in the following categories:Cost Optimization Performance Security Fault Tolerance

Explanation:TCO stand for Total Cost of Ownership.QUESTION:105What categories full under those analyzed by the AWS Trusted Advisor program? (Select all thatapply)

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