AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner · Free Practice Question Easy
Question 19
An e-commerce company uses AWS Cloud and would like to receive separate invoices for development and production environments. As a Cloud Practioner, which of the following solutions would you recommend for this use-case?
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A
Use AWS Cost Explorer to create separate invoices for development and production environments
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B
Create separate AWS accounts for development and production environments to receive separate invoices
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C
Use AWS Organizations to create separate invoices for development and production environments
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D
Tag all resources in the AWS account as either
developmentorproduction. Then use the tags to create separate invoices
Reveal correct answer
Correct answer: B
Explanation
Correct option:
Create separate AWS accounts for development and production environments to receive separate invoices
Every AWS account provides its own invoice end of the month. You can get separate invoices for development and production environments by setting up separate AWS accounts for each environment.
Incorrect options:
Use AWS Organizations to create separate invoices for development and production environments - AWS Organizations helps you to centrally manage billing; control access, compliance, and security; and share resources across your AWS accounts. Using AWS Organizations, you can automate account creation, create groups of accounts to reflect your business needs, and apply policies for these groups for governance. You can also simplify billing by setting up a single payment method for all of your AWS accounts. AWS Organizations is available to all AWS customers at no additional charge.
AWS Organizations cannot create separate invoices for development and production environments, rather, AWS Organizations helps you to centrally manage billing.
Tag all resources in the AWS account as either development or production. Then use the tags to create separate invoices - You cannot create separate invoices based on tags.
Use AWS Cost Explorer to create separate invoices for development and production environments - AWS Cost Explorer lets you explore your AWS costs and usage at both a high level and at a detailed level of analysis, and empowering you to dive deeper using several filtering dimensions (e.g., AWS Service, Region, Linked Account). AWS Cost Explorer cannot create separate invoices for development and production environments.
Reference:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/billing-what-is.html
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