You are working as an AWS Administrator for a media company. They are using AWS resources in various regions for broadcasting live sports matches. Multiple EC2 On-Demand, Spot & Reserved Instances are launched as per user traffic daily, resulting in huge monthly charges. Top management is looking for customized analysis for these charges based upon various factors like month-wise, instance-wise to deep dive into the incurred cost. They should be able to visualize the costs analysis on a chart display. The accounts team is looking for a simpler way to analyze these charges and query this report to meet this requirement. Suggest a cost-effective solution that can be set up with the least effort.

Answer options:

A.Upload the AWS Cost and Usage Reports to S3. Integrate these reports with Amazon Athena to analyze billing data.
B.Upload AWS Cost & Usage Reports to Amazon QuickSight & analyze billing data.
C.Download CSV report from Amazon S3 & analyze cost & usage using a third-party tool.
D.Upload AWS Cost & Usage Reports to Amazon Redshift & analyze billing data.

Correct Answer – B
Amazon QuickSight is a business analytics service you can use to build visualizations, charts, perform ad hoc analysis, and get business insights from your data. It can automatically discover AWS data sources and also works with your data sources.
Option A is incorrect as AWS Athena doesn’t provide visualizations.
Option C is incorrect as using a third-party tool to analyze cost & usage reports can be costly.
Option D is incorrect as Amazon Redshift is a petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. You can start with just a few hundred gigabytes of data and scale to a petabyte or more. It is not used for such cost analysis. It is used for complex queries and data warehousing.
For more information on Amazon QuickSight, refer to the following URL-
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksight/latest/user/welcome.html#analyses