Cloud Financial Management
RecognitionAWS Cost Explorer
Evidence for processing and storage cost optimization without relying on mutable price tables.
Key points
- Cost Explorer shows historical and forecasted cost trends by service, account, or tag.
- Use its measured evidence before changing capacity, retention, or architecture for cost reasons.
Best-known use cases
- Analyze historical processing and storage costs by service or tag.
- Identify cost trends before changing pipeline capacity or retention.
What candidates often confuse it with
- Cost Explorer supports cost analysis; AWS Budgets adds threshold-based notifications.
Key takeaway
Choose Cost Explorer to investigate where data-platform spend changed before selecting an optimization.
Relevant exam tasks
- D1.2 — Task 1.2: Transform and process data
- 1.2.4 — Optimize costs while processing data.