A university receives a grant to conduct research by using AWS services. The research team needs to make sure the grant money lasts for the entire school year. The team has decided on a monthly alloca

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• AAWS Budgets
• BCost Explorer
• CCost allocation tags
• DCost categories

• A
  91% (39)
• B
  2% (1)
• C
  5% (2)
• D
  2% (1)

Explanation

AWS Budgets is correct because it allows you to set custom spending thresholds and automatically sends alerts/notifications (via email or SNS) when your actual or forecasted costs exceed your defined budget - perfectly matching the requirement to notify the team if spending exceeds the planned monthly amount.

Cost Explorer (B) is a visualization and analysis tool that helps you view and analyze past and current spending trends, but it does not send proactive notifications when budgets are exceeded. Cost allocation tags (C) are simply labels applied to AWS resources to help categorize and track costs - they have no alerting or budget-enforcement capability. Cost categories (D) are used to organize and group costs into meaningful business categories for reporting purposes, again with no notification functionality.

Memory Tip: Think of Budgets = Budget Alerts - just like a personal budgeting app on your phone that warns you when you're overspending, AWS Budgets is the only service among the choices designed to proactively notify you when you cross a spending threshold.

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