Your company has a department that has set their own AWS account that is not part of the consolidating billing process for the company. The department also has set up an AWS Direct Connect connection to a VPC via a private VIF for downloading data from an EC2 instance. What would be the pricing for Direct Connect?

Answer options:

A.The company would be charged for data transfer out via the Internet gateway.
B.The company would be charged for data transfer out via AWS Direct Connect.
C.The company would be charged for data transfer out via the private VIF.D.The department would be charged for data transfer out via AWS Direct Connect.

Answer – D
Since the department has opened the AWS account irrespective of the company, they would be charged. They would be charged on the Data transfer out.
The below excerpt from the AWS Documentation shows the data transfer charges.
AWS Direct Connect data transfer
Data transfer IN is $0.00 per GB in all locations.
Data Transfer OUT pricing is dependent on the source AWS Region and AWS Direct Connect location. Please choose your Direct Connect location from the relevant section below to get $/GB pricing for Data Transfer Out from AWS Region to AWS Direct Connect location, or click here for the full data transfer pricing table.
Options A and B are incorrect because only the department would be charged and NOT the company and there is no use of an internet gateway
Option C is incorrect because charges will be applied to the department, not the company. It is the department that uses the Private VIF for data transfer out using the Direct Connect and hence would be charged for the data transfer out.
For more information on AWS Direct Connect billing, please refer to the below URL
https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/pricing/