Which service provides dashboards and tools to explore and visualize cost and usage trends across AWS accounts?

• A. AWS Cost and Usage Report
• B. AWS Budgets
• C. AWS Cost Explorer
• D. Amazon SES

Answer: (C)

Cost Explorer is the service that provides dashboards and interactive tools to visualize cost and usage trends across AWS accounts. It uses your consolidated billing data to show charts and trends, letting you filter by linked accounts, services, tags, and time ranges. You can view historical spending, identify spikes, compare costs across accounts, and even forecast future costs, which helps with governance and optimization across an organization. The Cost and Usage Report is raw data you export to S3 for deeper analysis with external tools, not built-in dashboards. AWS Budgets focuses on setting budgets and alerts rather than exploring overall cost and usage trends, and SES is unrelated to cost visualization.