AWS Certified SysOps Administrator SOA-C01 – Question371

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.

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation: 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/