A company runs a batch processing job on Amazon EC2 every night. The job takes about 3 hours to complete. The workload is fault-tolerant and can be interrupted and resumed without issues. Which EC2 pricing model provides the MAXIMUM cost savings for this workload?

Answer options:

On-Demand Instances

Reserved Instances

Spot Instances

Dedicated Hosts

How to approach this question

Match 'fault-tolerant' and 'can be interrupted' directly with Spot Instances.

Full Answer

C.Spot Instances✓ Correct

Spot Instances

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS cloud. Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices.

Common mistakes

Choosing Reserved Instances for a job that only runs 3 hours a day.

Question 55 All questions Question 57

Practice the full AWS SAA-C03 Practice Exam 7

65 questions · hints · full answers · grading

More questions from this exam

Q01A company has multiple AWS accounts in an AWS Organizations organization. The security team needs...Medium Q02An application runs on Amazon EC2 instances and needs to access an Amazon S3 bucket. What is the ...Easy Q03A company wants to implement federated access to the AWS Management Console for its employees usi...Medium Q04A company is building a mobile application that requires users to sign in using their social medi...Easy Q05A security team wants to enforce MFA for all IAM users before they can terminate EC2 instances. H...Medium

View all 65 questions →