A Company Wants to Migrate a High Performance Computing (HPC)

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Multiple Choice

A company wants to migrate a high performance computing (HPC) application and data from on-premises to the AWS Cloud. The company uses tiered storage on premises with hot high-performance parallel storage to support the application during periodic runs of the application, and more economical cold storage to hold the data when the application is not actively running. Which combination of solutions should a solutions architect recommend to support the storage needs of the application? (Choose two.)

• A) Amazon S3 for cold data storage
• B) Amazon EFS for cold data storage
• C) Amazon S3 for high-performance parallel storage
• D) Amazon FSx for Lustre for high-performance parallel storage
• E) Amazon FSx for Windows for high-performance parallel storage

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Definitions:

Economic Profits

Profits earned by a company after accounting for both explicit (direct) and implicit (opportunity) costs.

Marginal-Cost Curve

A graph that shows the relationship between the marginal cost of producing an additional unit and the total quantity of the product produced.

Law of Diminishing

A principle stating that as more units of a variable input are added to fixed inputs, the additional output from each new unit of input eventually decreases.

Implicit Costs

The opportunity costs associated with a company's own resources, not directly paid for with cash but are the result of using assets instead of investing them elsewhere.