SAA-C03 Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

A company needs to use spare EC2 capacity at steep discount for fault-tolerant batch. Which option meets the requirement with the LEAST implementation effort? use spare EC2 capacity at steep discount for fault-tolerant batch.

Multiple choice — select one answer

Answer choices

  1. a. AWS Savings Plans or Reserved Instances
  2. b. Dedicated Hosts for all stateful DBs without DR
  3. c. Amazon S3 static website hosting with CloudFront
  4. d. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

Architectural breakdown & explanation

Spot offers unused capacity at lower prices.

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

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

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