CLF-C02 Billing, Pricing, and Support Practice Question
Which AWS service or feature provides a notification when AWS is performing planned maintenance that may affect your resources?
⚠ Common exam trap
Many candidates confuse the AWS Service Health Dashboard (public, region-wide status) with the AWS Personal Health Dashboard (account-specific alerts), or mistakenly think CloudWatch Alarms can capture AWS-side maintenance events via custom metrics.
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Why each option matters
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AWS Health Dashboard
AWS Health Dashboard (specifically the AWS Personal Health Dashboard) provides proactive notifications and alerts when AWS is performing planned maintenance that may affect your resources. It gives you a personalized view of service health events, including scheduled maintenance, that are relevant to your AWS account and resources.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Amazon CloudWatch Alarms
Why it's wrong here
Amazon CloudWatch Alarms are designed to react to metric thresholds you explicitly define, such as CPU utilization or error counts. Because AWS-initiated scheduled maintenance events are not published as CloudWatch metrics for your resources, an alarm has nothing to trigger on, so it cannot notify you about upcoming maintenance.
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AWS Health Dashboard
Why this is correct
The AWS Health Dashboard delivers account-specific and resource-specific notifications about planned lifecycle events, including scheduled maintenance, service disruptions, and other AWS-initiated changes. It proactively alerts you with a personalized view of events that affect your resources, and you can even automate responses by integrating these events with Amazon EventBridge.
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AWS Trusted Advisor
Why it's wrong here
AWS Trusted Advisor performs best-practice checks across categories like cost optimization, performance, security, and service quotas, then recommends changes you can make. It does not monitor or publish notifications about AWS-planned maintenance events, as those are operational lifecycle communications rather than recommendations derived from your account configuration.
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AWS Config
Why it's wrong here
AWS Config records configuration changes to your resources and evaluates them against desired rules, providing a configuration history and compliance snapshot. It is not an event notification service for AWS-initiated maintenance, and it has no awareness of upcoming scheduled maintenance windows for the services you use.
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