Three tools cover the life cycle of AWS costs: estimating before you build, analyzing what you have spent, and alerting when spending goes off course. The AWS Pricing Calculator, AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets can sound interchangeable, and the exam deliberately offers them as distractors for each other. The way to keep them apart is to ask when the question is set in time: before deployment, after spending, or continuously watching for a threshold.
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