A company wants to reduce the cost of its existing three-tier web architecture. The web, application, and database servers are running on Amazon EC2 instances for the development, test, and production environments. The EC2 instances average 30% CPU utilization during peak hours and 10% CPU utilization during non-peak hours. The production EC2 instances run 24 hours a day. The development and test EC2 instances run for at least 8 hours each day. The company plans to implement automation to stop the development and test EC2 instances when they are not in use. Which EC2 instance purchasing solution will meet the company's requirements MOST cost-effectively?
Select one answer.
Marked answer: B
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Chose B1
Using Reserved Instances is suitable for predictable workloads while using On-demand is suitable for dev and test instances as we want to reduce their costs by paying for only resources that we use.
Chose B1
production - reserved test/dev - on-demand
Chose B2
Ans B - A: Spot instances are not ideal for production due to possibility of not running C,D: Spot blocks discontinued. That leaves option B
