A company wants to produce Amazon QuickSight dashboards weekly using its AWS billing data. Which AWS tool or feature should they use to get the detailed billing data needed for those dashboards?
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Correct answer: AWS Cost and Usage Report.
Why this is the answer
The AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) provides the most comprehensive and granular data about your AWS costs and usage. It includes line-item details for every charge, making it ideal for detailed analysis, custom reporting, and integration with business intelligence tools like Amazon QuickSight. This level of detail is necessary for producing sophisticated dashboards. 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 the raw, detailed billing data. AWS Cost Explorer offers pre-built reports and an interface to visualize and analyze costs, but for programmatic access to the most granular data for custom dashboards, CUR is superior. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection identifies unusual spending patterns but doesn't provide the full dataset for dashboard creation.
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