A company is preparing to migrate to AWS and needs to produce cost estimates for its AWS use cases. Which AWS tool can it use to generate those cost estimates?
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Correct answer: AWS Pricing Calculator.
Why this is the answer
The AWS Pricing Calculator allows you to estimate the cost of your AWS services before you start using them. It's designed for planning and forecasting expenses for new workloads or migrations. You can input details about the services you plan to use (e.g., EC2 instance types, S3 storage, data transfer) and receive an estimated monthly cost. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service, not a cost estimation tool. AWS Cost Explorer helps analyze past and current spending, but it doesn't generate estimates for future, unprovisioned resources. AWS Budgets allows you to set custom budgets and receive alerts when your costs or usage exceed your budgeted amounts, but it doesn't provide initial cost estimates.
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