AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Question 590

A company wants to run CPU-intensive workload across multiple Amazon EC2 instances.

Which EC2 instance type should the company use to meet this requirement?

Answer options

• A. General purpose instances
• B. Compute optimized instances
• C. Memory optimized instances
• D. Storage optimized instances

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Compute optimized instances are specifically engineered for high-performance processors and are ideal for CPU-intensive tasks such as batch processing, media transcoding, and high-performance web servers. General purpose instances provide a balance of resources, while memory optimized and storage optimized instances target memory-heavy and high-I/O workloads, respectively.