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SAA-C03 Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures Questions

Explore how to design cost-optimized AWS architectures by analyzing pricing options and storage strategies. Learn to select the best pricing models for workloads, manage data lifecycle costs, and reduce unnecessary charges while maintaining security and performance.

Question 16

A workload runs continuously, 24/7, with predictable CPU and memory usage. The company expects the workload to run for at least 18 months. However, the team wants flexibility to change EC2 instance families if performance characteristics change.

Which pricing model provides the lowest cost while preserving flexibility?

A. On-Demand Instances
B. Standard Reserved Instances for a specific instance family
C. Compute Savings Plans
D. Spot Instances

Question 17

A company stores application logs in Amazon S3. Access patterns are: ...