A company wants to visualize its AWS spend and resource usage. The company wants to use an AWS managed service to provide visual dashboards. Which…

The most effective solution is to use AWS Data Exports to create a detailed Cost and Usage Report (CUR) and deliver it to an Amazon S3 bucket. This report contains the most comprehensive set of AWS cost and usage data available. Amazon QuickSight, an AWS managed business intelligence (BI) service, can then connect to this data in S3 (often queried via Amazon Athena for performance) to build powerful, interactive, and customizable visual dashboards. This approach directly meets the company's requirements for visualizing spend and usage using AWS managed services.

B: AWS Budgets is primarily for monitoring costs against a set threshold and triggering alerts. It is not a tool for creating detailed, interactive visualization dashboards for in-depth analysis.

C: AWS Cost Explorer provides pre-built visualizations and reports, but it offers less customization for dashboards compared to Amazon QuickSight. It is better for high-level analysis than for building tailored visualizations.

D: Amazon Athena is a query service, not a visualization tool. While it can be used to query the exported data in S3, it does not fulfill the requirement of providing visual dashboards.

1. AWS Documentation - Amazon QuickSight: "You can create a dashboard from your AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) data... By bringing your CUR data into Amazon QuickSight

you can get a deeper understanding of your cost and usage data."

Source: AWS Documentation

Tutorial: Creating a dashboard from your AWS Cost and Usage Report data.

2. AWS Documentation - AWS Data Exports: "Data Exports in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console is the recommended way to get the most comprehensive information about your AWS costs and usage... You can download the report from the Amazon S3 console

upload the report into Amazon Redshift or Amazon QuickSight..."

Source: AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide

What are AWS Data Exports?.

3. AWS Documentation - AWS Cost Management: A diagram shows the flow: "AWS Cost & Usage Report" -> "Amazon S3" -> "Amazon Athena" -> "Amazon QuickSight" as a standard architecture for cost visualization.

Source: AWS Cost Management Documentation

AWS Cost and Usage Reports User Guide

Section: "Querying CUR in Amazon Athena".