Consolidated Billing feature is used in a multinational company. A master AWS account is a setup to pay the charges of all the member accounts. You are an AWS solutions architect. You created the billing Cost and Usage Reports in the master AWS account. In terms of this billing report configuration, which benefits can you get? (Select TWO)

Answer options:

A.The billing reports for all member accounts are activated automatically and refreshed each hour. All member accounts can view their reports on the billing dashboard.
B.The report data can be uploaded to Amazon Redshift, allowing you to analyze the costs and usage. Billing and Cost Management can provide the RedshiftCommands.sql file in the Billing and Cost Management Console.
C.The JSON format billing reports are uploaded to an S3 bucket that was previously configured. You could easily download the reports from the Amazon S3 console.
D.The reports are available only to the master account and include activities for all the member accounts.

Correct Answer – B, D
For Cost and Usage Reports, if the consolidated billing feature in AWS Organizations is used, only the master account can create and view the reports. Check the details in https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/billing-reports-costusage.html.
Option A is incorrect because member accounts cannot see their reports and the only master account can. Besides, the reports are updated up to three times a day instead of every hour.
Option B is CORRECT because AWS has provided the integration with Redshift for the billing reports:
For more information:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/billing-reports-costusage-upload.html
Option C is incorrect because the report is a .csv file or a collection of .csv files instead of JSON format.
Option D is CORRECT: This is correct according to
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/billing-reports-costusage.html.