Question

A SysOps administrator purchased a Compute Savings Plan three months ago to cover a steady EC2 workload. Finance now reports the company is still receiving large on-demand charges each month. The administrator needs to determine whether the commitment is too small (leaving usage uncovered) or whether the purchased commitment is being wasted. Which combination of Cost Explorer reports should the administrator review to make this determination?

Accepted Answer

The Savings Plans coverage report to see how much eligible usage runs at on-demand rates, and the Savings Plans utilization report to see how much of the commitment is actually being used

Answer

The Reserved Instance utilization report and the RI recommendations report to identify unused reservations

Answer

The Cost and Usage Report only, filtered by the Savings Plan ARN, to view raw hourly line items

Answer

The rightsizing recommendations report to identify idle instances and the daily cost anomaly detection report