What will AWS Budgets help you achieve?

AWS Budgets is designed to help you set and track your budgetary compliance effectively. It allows users to create budgets that monitor cost and usage within their AWS accounts, providing visibility into spending and helping to manage costs proactively. By defining specific budgetary thresholds, you can receive alerts when your spending approaches or exceeds your set budget. This capability is critical for organizations seeking to maintain financial control over their cloud expenditures, making it easier to ensure that spending aligns with organizational financial goals and limits.

The other options each deal with different aspects of cloud management. Measuring application response times relates to performance monitoring tools, which track how quickly applications respond to requests rather than focusing on budget oversight. Automating cloud resource provisioning pertains to managing resources dynamically based on demand, which involves different AWS services that facilitate scalability and efficiency, not budget tracking. Finally, determining user authentication processes ties to identity and access management, focusing on security and access controls broadly, which diverges from the budgeting aspect entirely. Thus, AWS Budgets specifically addresses financial management in the cloud, making the tracking of budgetary compliance the primary function of the tool.