A User Is Sending a Custom Metric to CloudWatch

question 801

Multiple Choice

A user is sending a custom metric to CloudWatch. If the call to the CloudWatch APIs has different dimensions, but the same metric name, how will CloudWatch treat all the requests?

• A) It will reject the request as there cannot be a separate dimension for a single metric.
• B) It will group all the calls into a single call.
• C) It will treat each unique combination of dimensions as a separate metric.
• D) It will overwrite the previous dimension data with the new dimension data.

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