A Company Needs to Run a Distributed Application That Processes

question 105

Multiple Choice

A company needs to run a distributed application that processes large amount of data across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The application is designed to tolerate processing interruptions. What is the MOST cost-effective Amazon EC2 pricing model for these requirements?

• A) Dedicated Hosts
• B) On-Demand Instances
• C) Reserved Instances
• D) Spot Instances

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