SAA-C03 Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

What is the MOST appropriate AWS solution to use spare EC2 capacity at steep discount for fault-tolerant batch?

Multiple choice — select one answer

Answer choices

  1. a. Dedicated Hosts for all stateful DBs without DR
  2. b. AWS Savings Plans or Reserved Instances
  3. c. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
  4. d. Amazon Aurora Serverless v2

Architectural breakdown & explanation

Spot offers unused capacity at lower prices.

Correct answer(s): c. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

Exam domain: Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures (18% weight on the official guide).

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