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SOA-C02 · Question #263

A company has a stateful, long-running workload on a single xlarge general purpose Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instance Metrics show that the service is always using 80% of its available memory and 40% of…

The correct answer is B. Change to one large memory optimized On-Demand Instance. CPU utilisation is rather low for using an xlarge instance, so a memory optimized large instance is a cheaper option that should meet the workload requirements.

Submitted by mike_84· Mar 30, 2026Cost and Performance Optimization

Question

A company has a stateful, long-running workload on a single xlarge general purpose Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instance Metrics show that the service is always using 80% of its available memory and 40% of its available CPU. A SysOps administrator must reduce the cost of the service without negatively affecting performance. Which change in instance type will meet these requirements?

Options

  • AChange to one large compute optimized On-Demand Instance.
  • BChange to one large memory optimized On-Demand Instance.
  • CChange to one xlarge general purpose Spot Instance.
  • DChange to two large general purpose On-Demand Instances.

How the community answered

(16 responses)
  • A
    6% (1)
  • B
    81% (13)
  • C
    13% (2)

Explanation

CPU utilisation is rather low for using an xlarge instance, so a memory optimized large instance is a cheaper option that should meet the workload requirements.

Topics

#EC2 right-sizing#memory optimized#instance type selection#cost reduction

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