A company is building an automation tool for generating custom reports on its AWS usage. The company must be able to programmatically access and forecast usage costs on specific services.

Which of the following would meet the requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

• Use the AWS Cost Explorer API with pagination to programmatically retrieve the usage cost-related data.
• Configure AWS Budgets to send usage cost data to the company via Amazon SNS.
• Generate AWS Budgets reports for usage cost data and deliver them via Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS).
• Utilize the downloadable AWS Cost Explorer report .csv files to access the cost-related data. Predict usage costs using AWS Budgets.
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A solutions architect is managing an application that runs on a Windows EC2 instance with an attached Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. To save cost, management has decided to stop the instance during off-hours and restart it only when needed. It has been observed that the application takes several minutes to become fully operational which impacts productivity.

How can the solutions architect speed up the instance’s loading time without driving the cost up?

• Migrate the application to a Linux-based EC2 instance.
• Migrate the application to an EC2 instance with hibernation enabled.
• Enable the hibernation mode on the EC2 instance.
• Disable the Instance Metadata Service to reduce the things that need to be loaded at startup.
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A company has an e-commerce application that saves the transaction logs to an S3 bucket. You are instructed by the CTO to configure the application to keep the transaction logs for one month for troubleshooting purposes, and then afterward, purge the logs.

What should you do to accomplish this requirement?

• Add a new bucket policy on the Amazon S3 bucket.
• Configure the lifecycle configuration rules on the Amazon S3 bucket to purge the transaction logs after a month