AWS Certified SAP on AWS – Specialty (PAS-C01) — Question 105

A company migrated its SAP environment to AWS 6 months ago. The landscape consists of a few thousand Amazon EC2 instances for production, development, quality, and sandbox environments. The company wants to minimize the operational cost of the landscape without affecting system performance and availability.

Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Scale down the EC2 instance size for non-production environments.
• B. Create an AWS Systems Manager document to automatically stop and start the SAP systems. Use Amazon CloudWatch to automate the scheduling of this task.
• C. Review the billing data for the EC2 instances. Analyze the workload, and choose an EC2 Instance Savings Plan.
• D. Create an AWS Systems Manager document to automatically stop and start the SAP systems and EC2 instances for non-production environments outside business hours. Use Amazon EventBridge to automate the scheduling of this task.
• E. Create an AWS Systems Manager document to automatically stop and start the SAP systems and EC2 instances. Maintain the schedule in the Systems Manager document to automate this task.

Correct answer: C, D

Explanation

Option C is correct as analyzing billing data and selecting an EC2 Instance Savings Plan can reduce costs significantly based on usage patterns. Option D is also correct because automating the start and stop of non-production instances during non-business hours further optimizes costs while maintaining performance. The other options do not comprehensively address the goal of minimizing operational costs without compromising system availability and performance.