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SAA-C03 · Question #566

A company that uses AWS Organizations runs 150 applications across 30 different AWS accounts. The company used AWS Cost and Usage Report to create a new report in the management account. The report…

The correct answer is B. Share an Amazon QuickSight dashboard that includes the requested table visual. Configure. The AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) delivers detailed, line-item billing data to Amazon S3. AWS recommends querying CUR with Amazon Athena by creating external tables over the CUR S3 location (partitioned by time) to produce daily cost aggregations such as NAT Gateway…

Submitted by khalil_dz· Mar 4, 2026Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

Question

A company that uses AWS Organizations runs 150 applications across 30 different AWS accounts. The company used AWS Cost and Usage Report to create a new report in the management account. The report is delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket that is replicated to a bucket in the data collection account. The company's senior leadership wants to view a custom dashboard that provides NAT gateway costs each day starting at the beginning of the current month. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options

  • AShare an Amazon QuickSight dashboard that includes the requested table visual. Configure
  • BShare an Amazon QuickSight dashboard that includes the requested table visual. Configure
  • CShare an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard that includes the requested table visual. Configure
  • DShare an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard that includes the requested table visual. Configure

How the community answered

(44 responses)
  • A
    5% (2)
  • B
    77% (34)
  • C
    7% (3)
  • D
    11% (5)

Explanation

The AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) delivers detailed, line-item billing data to Amazon S3. AWS recommends querying CUR with Amazon Athena by creating external tables over the CUR S3 location (partitioned by time) to produce daily cost aggregations such as NAT Gateway (EC2:NatGateway) usage and cost. Amazon QuickSight natively connects to Athena as a data source to build and share dashboards with visuals (tables, time series) filtered from the start of the current month. DataSync (A, C) is a file transfer service and cannot query data. CloudWatch dashboards (C, D) visualize metrics/logs, not CUR datasets. Therefore, using Athena to query CUR and QuickSight to present a daily NAT gateway cost dashboard is the most direct and operationally efficient approach.

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