Which service provides APIs and a console to help reduce costs by recommending the optimal AWS resources for workloads?

• A. AWS Compute Optimizer
• B. AWS License Manager
• C. Amazon Managed Grafana
• D. AWS Health Dashboard

Answer: (A)

Compute Optimizer is the service designed to analyze how your resources are used and recommend cost-saving, right-sized options. It reviews usage patterns and configurations for EC2 instances, Auto Scaling Groups, and EBS volumes, then suggests the most cost-effective instance types, sizes, and storage configurations to improve efficiency without sacrificing performance. You can access these recommendations through the AWS Management Console and also via APIs or the CLI to fetch and apply them. This directly helps reduce costs by aligning resources with actual workloads. Other options serve different purposes—License Manager handles licenses, Amazon Managed Grafana provides dashboards, and the AWS Health Dashboard shows service health—none of which focuses on optimizing resource costs through recommendations.