A company wants guidance to optimize the cost and performance of its current AWS environment. Which AWS service or tool should the company use to…

AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices. It inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations for saving money, improving system performance and reliability, and closing security gaps. The service provides checks and recommendations across five categories: Cost Optimization, Performance, Security, Fault Tolerance, and Service Quotas. This directly aligns with the company's requirement for guidance on optimizing both cost and performance.

A. Amazon QuickSight is a business intelligence (BI) service used for creating interactive dashboards and data visualizations. It does not provide automated recommendations for optimizing an AWS environment.

C. AWS Organizations is a service for centrally managing and governing multiple AWS accounts. While it helps with consolidated billing, it does not provide specific resource-level optimization recommendations.

D. AWS Budgets allows you to set custom budgets to track your cost and usage. It alerts you when you exceed thresholds but does not provide guidance on how to optimize performance or reduce costs.

1. AWS Trusted Advisor Documentation: "AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor evaluates your account by using checks. These checks identify ways to optimize your AWS infrastructure

improve security and performance

reduce costs

and monitor service quotas."

Source: AWS Documentation

"How AWS Trusted Advisor works

" Section: "Getting started with AWS Trusted Advisor."

2. AWS Well-Architected Framework

Cost Optimization Pillar Whitepaper: "Use AWS Trusted Advisor to get a high-level view of the optimization of your AWS environment. Trusted Advisor provides best practice checks and recommendations in five categories: cost optimization

security

fault tolerance

performance

and service limits."

Source: AWS Whitepapers & Guides

"AWS Well-Architected Framework

Cost Optimization Pillar

" Page 26

Section: "Expenditure and usage awareness."

3. AWS Budgets Documentation: "You can use AWS Budgets to track and take action on your AWS costs and usage... Budgets are primarily a cost and usage tracking tool."

Source: AWS Cost Management User Guide

"Managing your costs with AWS Budgets."

4. Amazon QuickSight Documentation: "Amazon QuickSight is a scalable

serverless

embeddable

machine learning-powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud."

Source: Amazon QuickSight

Product Details Page

"What is Amazon QuickSight?" section.