AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Question 370

A company is migrating to the AWS Cloud and plans to run experimental workloads for 3 to 6 months on AWS.

Which pricing model will meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Use Savings Plans for a 3-year term.
• B. Use Dedicated Hosts.
• C. Buy Reserved Instances.
• D. Use On-Demand Instances.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

On-Demand Instances are the ideal choice for short-term, experimental workloads lasting 3 to 6 months because they require no long-term commitment or upfront payments. Savings Plans and Reserved Instances require commitments of 1 or 3 years, making them unsuitable and costly for temporary projects. Dedicated Hosts are physical servers dedicated to a single customer, which is an unnecessary expense for running simple experimental workloads.