A Company Has an Asynchronous Nightly Process That Feeds the Results

question 49

Multiple Choice

A company has an asynchronous nightly process that feeds the results to a data warehouse system for weekly and monthly reporting. The process is running on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances. A SysOps Administrator has been asked to identify ways to reduce the cost of running this process. What is the MOST cost-effective solution?

• A) Use On-Demand EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group
• B) Use Spot Instances to bid for the EC2 instances
• C) Use Reserved Instances to ensure the capacity
• D) Put the EC2 instances in a placement group

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