Exam AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 topic 1 question 162 discussion

If you see HPC and Linux both in the question.. Pick Amazon FSx for Lustre

Additional keywords: make data available for processing by all EC2 instances ==> FSx In absence of EFS, it should be FSx. Amazon FSx For Lustre provides a high-performance, parallel file system for hot data

A is the answer because Amazon FSx for Lustre provides a high-performance, scalable file system optimized for compute-intensive workloads like HPC.

Lustre is default when HPC is involved. https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/lustre/ B: mentions Windows and no-one asked for it. C: S3 Glacier is too slow for HPC D: I don't think this is possible, unless I'm mistake, how can you connect a VPC endpoint to EBS without an EC2 kind of instance?

HPC workloads running on Linux = Amazon FSx for Lustre

High performance - Lustre

The reasons are: Amazon FSx for Lustre provides a high-performance, scalable file system optimized for compute-intensive workloads like HPC. It has native integration with Amazon S3. Data can be copied from on-premises to an S3 bucket, acting as persistent long-term storage. The FSx for Lustre file system can then access the S3 data for high speed processing of datasets and output files. FSx for Lustre is designed for the Linux environments used in this HPC workload.

FSx for Lustre is a high-performance file system optimized for compute-intensive workloads. It provides scalable, parallel access to data and is suitable for HPC applications. By integrating FSx for Lustre with S3, you can easily copy on-premises data to long-term persistent storage in S3, making it available for processing by EC2 instances. S3 serves as the durable and highly scalable object storage for storing the output files, allowing for analytics and long-term future use. Option B, FSx for Windows File Server, is not suitable because the workloads run on Linux, and this option is designed for Windows file sharing. Option C, S3 Glacier integrated with EBS, is not the best choice as it is a low-cost archival storage service and not optimized for high-performance file system requirements. Option D, using an S3 bucket with a VPC endpoint integrated with an Amazon EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volume, does not provide the required high-performance file system capabilities for HPC workloads.

Option A is right answer.

FSx for Lustre makes it easy and cost-effective to launch and run the popular, high-performance Lustre file system. You use Lustre for workloads where speed matters, such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, and financial modeling. Amazon Fsx for Lustre is integrated with Amazon S3.

Amazon FSx for Lustre integrated with Amazon S3

A is right choice here.

Option A is the best high performance storage with integration to S3

requirement is File System and workload running on linux. so S3 and FSx for windows is not an option

A The Amazon FSx for Lustre service is a fully managed, high-performance file system that makes it easy to move and process large amounts of data quickly and cost-effectively. It provides a fully managed, cloud-native file system with low operational overhead, designed for massively parallel processing and high-performance workloads. The Lustre file system is a popular, open source parallel file system that is well-suited for a variety of applications such as HPC, image processing, AI/ML, media processing, data analytics, and financial modeling, among others. With Amazon FSx for Lustre, you can quickly create and configure new file systems in minutes, and easily scale the size of your file system up or down

A is correct

A - for HPC "Amazon FSx for Lustre" and long-term persistence "S3"