AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty MLS-C01 – Question162

A company is building a demand forecasting model based on machine learning (ML). In the development stage, an ML specialist uses an Amazon SageMaker notebook to perform feature engineering during work hours that consumes low amounts of CPU and memory resources. A data engineer uses the same notebook to perform data preprocessing once a day on average that requires very high memory and completes in only 2 hours. The data preprocessing is not configured to use GPU. All the processes are running well on an ml.m5.4xlarge notebook instance.
The company receives an AWS Budgets alert that the billing for this month exceeds the allocated budget.
Which solution will result in the MOST cost savings?

A.
Change the notebook instance type to a memory optimized instance with the same vCPU number as the ml.m5.4xlarge instance has. Stop the notebook when it is not in use. Run both data preprocessing and feature engineering development on that instance.
B. Keep the notebook instance type and size the same. Stop the notebook when it is not in use. Run data preprocessing on a P3 instance type with the same memory as the ml.m5.4xlarge instance by using Amazon SageMaker Processing.
C. Change the notebook instance type to a smaller general purpose instance. Stop the notebook when it is not in use. Run data preprocessing on an ml.r5 instance with the same memory size as the ml.m5.4xlarge instance by using Amazon SageMaker Processing.
D. Change the notebook instance type to a smaller general purpose instance. Stop the notebook when it is not in use. Run data preprocessing on an R5 instance with the same memory size as the ml.m5.4xlarge instance by using the Reserved Instance option.

Correct Answer: B