A company manages hundreds of AWS accounts in an AWS Organizations organization with all features enabled. The finance team has a daily budget and must receive an email when the organization's AWS costs exceed 80% of that daily budget. Which implementation will track costs and send the required email notification?
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Correct answer: In the organization's management account, create an AWS Budgets budget with a daily period, add an alert threshold at 80%, and configure an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic to email the finance team..
Why this is the answer
AWS Budgets is the most direct and efficient service for tracking AWS costs against a defined budget and sending notifications. Creating a budget in the management account with a daily period and an 80% alert threshold, then linking it to an SNS topic for email notifications, directly addresses all requirements. AWS Trusted Advisor's organizational view focuses on cost optimization recommendations, not real-time budget tracking and alerts. AWS Control Tower guardrails are for policy enforcement and governance, not dynamic cost budget monitoring. While a custom solution involving CUR, Athena, EventBridge, and CloudWatch could work, it's overly complex and requires significant development and maintenance compared to the native functionality of AWS Budgets.
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