AWS Certified SAP on AWS – Specialty (PAS-C01) — Question 104

A company is running SAP on premises and is using hard disk drive (HDD) cost-optimized storage to store SAP HANA archive files. The company directly mounts these disks as local file systems. The company also backs up the archives on a regular basis.

The company needs to migrate this setup to AWS.

Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Answer options

• A. Use General Purpose SSD (gp2) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes as the archive destination. Use Amazon S3 for backups. Use S3 Glacier for long-term retention of the archives.
• B. Use Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes as the archive destination. Back up the archives to Cold HDD (sc1) EBS volumes.
• C. Use Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes as the archive destination. Use Amazon S3 for backups. Use S3 Glacier for long-term retention of the archives.
• D. Use Cold HDD (sc1) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes as the archive destination. Use Amazon S3 for backups. Use S3 Glacier for long-term retention or the archives.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer, D, is the most cost-effective choice because Cold HDD (sc1) volumes are designed for lower-cost storage, which aligns with the need for cost-optimized solutions. Options A and C involve using more expensive SSD solutions, while option B does not provide an optimal backup solution with S3 Glacier for long-term retention.