AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Question 423

A company has temporary workload that is also variable. The company needs to use Amazon EC2 instances for the workload. The EC2 instances need to handle short bursts of work that cannot stop before finishing.

Which purchase option will meet these requirements?

Answer options

Correct answer: B

Explanation

On-Demand Instances are the best choice because they provide flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing with no long-term commitment and cannot be interrupted mid-process. Spot Instances are unsuitable because AWS can terminate them with a two-minute warning, which violates the requirement that the workload cannot be stopped. Savings Plans and Reserved Instances are designed for steady-state, long-term workloads and require commitments of one or three years, making them inappropriate for temporary use.