A company wants to control its cost of Amazon Athena usage. The company has allocated a specific monthly budget for Athena usage. A solutions architect must design a solution that will prevent the…

AWS Budgets can create alerts and notifications when costs approach or exceed a threshold, but they do not automatically prevent services from incurring further charges or stop usage.

Cost Explorer provides tools for cost visualization and anomaly detection but, like AWS Budgets, it only sends alerts and does not actively prevent exceeding a budget by stopping resource usage.

AWS Trusted Advisor offers recommendations for cost optimization, but it is not designed to track real-time costs or prevent exceeding specific budget limits. EventBridge integration would primarily be for reactive automation, not proactive prevention of cost overruns.

Amazon Athena workgroups offer the capability to enforce hard limits on the amount of data scanned per query and per workgroup, directly preventing excessive cost accumulation. Since Athena bills based on data scanned, setting these limits effectively stops usage that would exceed the budgeted amount.