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A retail logistics company is designing the compute infrastructure for a new real-time inventory routing engine. The system has the following requirements:
- Must run continuously 24/7 as a steady-state production workload with a guaranteed virtual machine uptime SLA of 99.99%.
- Requires memory-optimized compute resources offering at least 8 GB of RAM per vCPU.
- Requires high-performance storage capable of sustaining at least 50,000 IOPS.
- Must ensure that data is encrypted in memory during execution to comply with strict internal data security standards.

Which compute and storage architecture should you recommend to meet these requirements?

  1. Deploy ECesv5-series confidential virtual machines across two or more Availability Zones with Premium SSD v2 storage.Answer
  2. B
    Deploy Spot ECesv5-series confidential virtual machines across multiple Availability Zones with Premium SSD v2 storage to reduce compute costs.
  3. C
    Deploy DCesv5-series confidential virtual machines across two or more Availability Zones with Standard SSD storage.
  4. D
    Deploy ECesv5-series confidential virtual machines within a single Availability Zone using Premium SSD v2 storage.

Answer

Deploy ECesv5-series confidential virtual machines across two or more Availability Zones with Premium SSD v2 storage.
The correct architecture uses ECesv5-series VMs which utilize AMD SEV-SNP technology to encrypt data in use, satisfying the security requirement, and provide 8 GB RAM per vCPU, satisfying the memory-optimized requirement. Distributing these VMs across multiple Availability Zones guarantees a 99.99% uptime SLA. Attaching Premium SSD v2 disks easily meets the 50,000 IOPS threshold.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze security and memory requirements.
Identify that the system requires confidential computing (in-memory encryption) and memory-optimized resources (8 GB RAM per vCPU). The ECesv5-series meets both criteria.
This filters out general-purpose options like DCesv5-series and standard non-confidential options.
2
Analyze SLA and availability requirements.
To meet the 99.99% virtual machine uptime SLA, the virtual machines must be deployed across two or more Availability Zones in the same region. Deploying in a single zone or using Spot VMs is ruled out.
Single zone deployments offer up to 99.9% SLA, and Spot VMs offer no SLA due to eviction risk.
3
Analyze storage performance requirements.
Verify that Premium SSD v2 can sustain the required 50,000 IOPS.
Standard SSDs cannot scale to 50,000 IOPS, which eliminates options using lower-tier storage.

Key Concept

Designing high-availability confidential compute solutions with memory-optimized workloads and high-performance storage.
Estimated Time:2m 30s
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