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SAP-C02 Practice Question 73: Consolidated Billing Shared Commitments

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) · Test 8 · question 3 of 10

Organizational Complexityeasy

A company runs six workloads in six separate standalone AWS accounts, each paid by a different department. Some accounts bought Savings Plans and Reserved Instances that they do not fully use, while others pay on-demand rates for the same instance families. Finance wants one bill, wants unused commitment to benefit the other accounts, and wants the combined usage to earn volume pricing discounts, without paying an additional fee for the capability.

What should the solutions architect recommend?

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Answer:

  • A. Create an AWS Organization, invite the six accounts, and use its consolidated billing

With consolidated billing in AWS Organizations, *"every organization ... has a management account that pays the charges of all the member accounts."* Its benefits include *"one bill"* and *"combined usage: you can combine the usage across all accounts in the organization. This shares the volume pricing discounts, Reserved Instance discounts, and Savings Plans."* AWS adds that consolidated billing is *"offered at no additional cost"* (option A).

- B is wrong because buying more commitment in each account increases spend and the amount of unused commitment, while accounts that need coverage still cannot use another account's plan. - C is wrong because merging workloads into one account is a large re-architecture that loses the isolation the departments have, and it is not needed to share discounts. - D is wrong because budget alerts only report unused commitment. They do not let another account use it.

Reference: Consolidating billing for AWS Organizations

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