SAP-C02 Practice Question: Design Solutions for Organizational Complexity
A company has multiple AWS accounts for different departments. The finance team wants to centrally manage and optimize EC2 Reserved Instance purchases across all accounts. Which solution should the company implement?
⚠ Common exam trap
It's easy for candidates to think each account must manage its own RIs (Option D) or that AWS Budgets can facilitate cross-account RI sharing (Option B), missing the key concept that consolidated billing enables centralized RI management and discount sharing.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Use AWS Organizations with consolidated billing and purchase Reserved Instances in the management account to share with all accounts.
AWS Organizations with consolidated billing allows Reserved Instance (RI) discounts to be applied across all accounts in the organization. By purchasing RIs in the management account, the finance team can centrally manage and optimize RI purchases, and the hourly cost and usage benefits are shared across all accounts, maximizing utilization and cost savings.
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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Use AWS Organizations with consolidated billing and purchase Reserved Instances in the management account to share with all accounts.
Why this is correct
Reserved Instances are shared across all accounts in the consolidated billing family.
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Use AWS Budgets to monitor usage and then purchase Reserved Instances per account.
Why it's wrong here
Budgets do not purchase; each account still needs own purchase.
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Purchase Reserved Instances in the EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace for distribution to accounts.
Why it's wrong here
Marketplace is for selling, not centralized purchasing.
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Have each account purchase its own Reserved Instances based on its usage.
Why it's wrong here
No optimization across accounts.
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