PAS-C01 · Question #69
A company plans to move its SAP systems from on premises to AWS to reduce infrastructure costs. The company is willing to make a 3-year commitment. However, the company wants to have maximum flexibili
The correct answer is B. 3-year Compute Savings Plan. A 3-year Compute Savings Plan (B) provides the deepest discount (up to 66%) of any committed pricing option while offering complete flexibility to change EC2 instance family, size, OS, tenancy, and AWS Region at any time. This directly meets the requirement for maximum flexibilit
Question
A company plans to move its SAP systems from on premises to AWS to reduce infrastructure costs. The company is willing to make a 3-year commitment. However, the company wants to have maximum flexibility for the selection of Amazon EC2 instances across AWS Regions, instance families, and instance sizes. Which purchasing option will meet these requirements at the LOWEST cost?
Options
- ASpot Instances
- B3-year Compute Savings Plan
- C3-year EC2 Instance Savings Plan
- D3-year Reserved Instances
How the community answered
(26 responses)- A4% (1)
- B77% (20)
- C4% (1)
- D15% (4)
Explanation
A 3-year Compute Savings Plan (B) provides the deepest discount (up to 66%) of any committed pricing option while offering complete flexibility to change EC2 instance family, size, OS, tenancy, and AWS Region at any time. This directly meets the requirement for maximum flexibility. A 3-year EC2 Instance Savings Plan (C) locks you to a specific instance family within a specific Region, limiting flexibility. 3-year Reserved Instances (D) are locked to a specific instance type, Region, and optionally OS and tenancy - convertible RIs offer some flexibility but still less than Compute Savings Plans. Spot Instances (A) provide no commitment and can be interrupted, making them unsuitable for production SAP systems, and they don't match a '3-year commitment' model.
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