A company wants to be alerted via email whenever their monthly AWS spending is forecasted to exceed $1,000. Which AWS service should they use?

Answer options:

AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Budgets

Amazon CloudWatch Billing Alarms

AWS Cost and Usage Report

How to approach this question

Look for the service designed for financial alerting.

Full Answer

B.AWS Budgets✓ Correct

AWS Budgets gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount.

Common mistakes

Choosing Cost Explorer, which is a visualization tool.

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