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Zorluk: OrtaReserved Instances and Savings Plans Optimization

A company hosts a production workload on a fleet of Amazon EC2 t3.mediumt3.medium Linux instances in the useast1us-east-1 region. The workload runs 24/724/7, and the company plans to migrate the fleet to t4g.mediumt4g.medium instances within the next 33 months. The company wants to optimize costs immediately by committing to a 11-year term, ensuring that the discount applies to the current t3t3 instances and automatically transitions to the new t4gt4g instances post-migration. Which purchasing option will meet these requirements at the lowest cost?

  1. Purchase a 11-year Compute Savings Plan.Cevap
  2. B
    Purchase a 11-year EC2 Instance Savings Plan for the t3t3 instance family.
  3. C
    Purchase a 11-year EC2 Instance Savings Plan for the t4gt4g instance family.
  4. D
    Purchase a 11-year Standard Reserved Instance for the t3t3 instance family.

Cevap

Purchase a 11-year Compute Savings Plan.
The correct answer is purchasing a 11-year Compute Savings Plan because it provides the necessary flexibility to automatically apply discounts across different EC2 instance families (from t3t3 to t4gt4g) during the term of the agreement, covering the instances both before and after the migration.

Adım Adım Çözüm

1
Analyze the workload characteristics and migration path.
The current workload runs on t3t3 instances, but will migrate to t4gt4g instances within the next 33 months during a 11-year commitment window.
This establishes that the discount mechanism must support a change in instance families (from t3t3 to t4gt4g) mid-term without losing the applied savings.
2
Evaluate the flexibility of different AWS pricing models.
EC2 Instance Savings Plans and Standard Reserved Instances are locked to specific instance families within a region. Only Compute Savings Plans allow changes across instance families, regions, operating systems, and tenancies.
This rules out EC2 Instance Savings Plans and Standard RIs as they cannot span the transition from t3t3 to t4gt4g without incurring wasted commitment or On-Demand rates.
3
Select the option that covers both phases of the migration at the lowest cost.
A 11-year Compute Savings Plan immediately applies to the active t3t3 instances and seamlessly transitions to cover the t4gt4g instances after the migration, preventing any gap in discount coverage.
This satisfies all operational constraints and ensures the maximum possible cost savings throughout the entire 11-year term.

Anahtar Kavram

Compute Savings Plans offer the flexibility to change instance families (e.g., t3t3 to t4gt4g) during the commitment term, whereas EC2 Instance Savings Plans and Standard Reserved Instances restrict discounts to a single instance family.
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