Your company has a set of resources hosted in AWS. Your IT Supervisor is concerned with the costs incurred by the resources running in AWS and wants to optimize the costs as much as possible. Which of the following ways could help achieve this efficiently? Choose 2 answers from the options given below.

Answer options:

A.Create Cloudwatch alarms to monitor underutilized resources and either shutdown or terminate resources that are not required.
B.Use the Trusted Advisor to see underutilized resources.
C.Create a script that monitors all the running resources and calculates the costs accordingly. The analyze those resources accordingly and see which can be optimized.
D.Create Cloudwatch logs to monitor underutilized resources and either shutdown or terminate resources that are not required.

Answer – A and B
You can use Cloudwatch alarms to see if resources are below a threshold for long periods of time. If so, you can decide to either stop them or terminate the resources.
For more information on Cloudwatch alarms, please visit the below URL:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/AlarmThatSendsEmail.html
In the Trusted Advisor, when you enable the Cost optimization section, you will get all sorts of checks which can be used to optimize the costs of your AWS resources.
For more information on the Trusted Advisor, please visit the below URL:
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/trustedadvisor/