Question

To manage a large number of AWS accounts in a better way, you create a new AWS Organization and invite multiple accounts. You only enable the “Consolidated billing” out of the two feature sets (All features and Consolidated billing) available in the AWS Organizations. Which of the following is the primary benefit of using Consolidated billing feature?

A. Apply SCPs to restrict the services that IAM users can access

B. Configure tag policies to maintain consistent tags for resources in the organization’s accounts

C. Configure a policy to prevent IAM users in the organization from disabling AWS CloudTrail

D. Combine the usage across all accounts to share the volume pricing discounts

Answer 1

D. Combine the usage across all accounts to share the volume pricing discounts

Answer: D

Explanation

Available feature sets in AWS Organizations:

All features – The default feature set that is available to AWS Organizations. It includes all the functionality of consolidated billing, plus advanced features that give you more control over accounts in your organization.

Consolidated billing – This feature set provides shared billing functionality but does not include the more advanced features of AWS Organizations.

Option​ ​A ​is​ ​incorrect:​ Because SCP is part of the advanced features which belong to “All features”.

Option​ ​B ​is​ ​incorrect:​ Because tag policies can be applied under the feature set of “All features”.

Option​ ​C ​is​ ​incorrect:​ This is implemented using SCP which is not supported in “Consolidated billing”.

Option​ ​D ​is​ CORRECT:​ ‘Consolidated billing’ feature set provides shared billing functionality.