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Spot instances are ideally designed for which purpose below?

  • A. Running database instances that can scale up and down based on a specific workload.
  • B. Running long duration and highly transactional applications.
  • C. For building distributed fault tolerant databases under a tight deadline.
  • D. Taking advantage of excess EC2 capacity at prices below standard on-demand rates, for short duration jobs.
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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️
There are four general categories of time-flexible and interruption-tolerant tasks that work well with Spot Instances: Delayable tasks, Optional tasks, Tasks that can be sped up by adding additional-computing power and at the end, Tasks that require a large number of compute instances that you can't access any other way.
Reference:
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot-instances/

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Finger41
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Selected Answer: D
D - https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/
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awscertified
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D. Taking advantage of excess EC2 capacity at prices below standard on-demand rates, for short duration
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