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SOA-C03 · Question #130

A company runs several workloads on AWS. The company identifies five AWS Trusted Advisor service quota metrics to monitor in a specific AWS Region. The company wants to receive email notification…

The correct answer is A. Create five Amazon CloudWatch alarms, one for each Trusted Advisor service quota metric. Trusted Advisor service quota usage is exposed as CloudWatch metrics, so the simplest approach is to create CloudWatch alarms on each metric with a threshold at 60% utilization and configure them to publish to an SNS topic for email notifications. SNS is the native service for…

Submitted by weili_xi· Mar 5, 2026Monitoring, logging, and remediation

Question

A company runs several workloads on AWS. The company identifies five AWS Trusted Advisor service quota metrics to monitor in a specific AWS Region. The company wants to receive email notification each time resource usage exceeds 60% of one of the service quotas. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options

  • ACreate five Amazon CloudWatch alarms, one for each Trusted Advisor service quota metric.
  • BCreate five Amazon CloudWatch alarms, one for each Trusted Advisor service quota metric.
  • CUse the AWS Health Dashboard to monitor each Trusted Advisor service quota metric. Configure
  • DUse the AWS Health Dashboard to monitor each Trusted Advisor service quota metric. Configure

How the community answered

(20 responses)
  • A
    85% (17)
  • C
    10% (2)
  • D
    5% (1)

Explanation

Trusted Advisor service quota usage is exposed as CloudWatch metrics, so the simplest approach is to create CloudWatch alarms on each metric with a threshold at 60% utilization and configure them to publish to an SNS topic for email notifications. SNS is the native service for sending email from CloudWatch alarms, making this the most direct and operationally efficient

Topics

#Trusted Advisor service quotas#CloudWatch alarms#quota monitoring#SNS notification

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