A company has deployed SAP workloads on AWS. The company's SAP applications use an IBM Db2 database and an SAP HANA database. An SAP solutions architect needs to create a solution to back up the…

Question

Options

• AUse an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume to store backups for the databases.
• BUse AWS Backint Agent for SAP HANA to move the backups for the databases directly to Amazon
• CUse an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume to store backups for the Db2 database.
• DUse Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to store backups for the databases.

• A
  9% (3)
• B
  6% (2)
• C
  83% (29)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

The solution must cover two different databases: IBM Db2 and SAP HANA. AWS Backint Agent for SAP HANA is an SAP-certified agent specifically designed to back up SAP HANA databases directly to Amazon S3, which is more cost-effective than EBS. However, Backint Agent only supports SAP HANA - it cannot be used for IBM Db2. Option C correctly addresses both databases: it uses EBS volume storage for the Db2 database backups (the appropriate local disk backup method for Db2, which does not have a native S3 backup integration), while implicitly using Backint Agent (or S3 directly) for SAP HANA. Option B (Backint Agent for both databases) is incorrect because Backint Agent does not support Db2. Option A (EBS for both) would be more expensive than using S3 for HANA backups. Option D (Amazon EFS for both) is more expensive than EBS for Db2 and misses the S3 cost advantage for HANA backups.

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