AWS Certified SAP on AWS – Specialty (PAS-C01) — Question 106

A company is running its SAP S/4HANA production system on AWS. The system is 5 TB in size and has a high performance and IOPS demand for the SAP HANA data storage. The company is using Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) General Purpose SSD (gp2) storage with burstable IOPS to meet this demand.

An SAP solutions architect needs to review the current storage layout and recommend a more cost-effective solution without compromising storage performance.

What should the SAP solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Switch from burstable IOPS to allocated IOPS for the gp2 storage.
• B. Replace all the gp2 storage with Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) storage.
• C. Replace all the gp2 storage with gp3 storage. Configure the required IOPS.
• D. Replace all the gp2 storage with gp3 storage at baseline IOPS.

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C because gp3 allows for the configuration of IOPS independently from storage size, enabling cost savings while still meeting performance needs. Option A does not address the cost-effectiveness requirement, while option B is potentially more expensive without guaranteed performance improvement. Option D does not provide the flexibility to optimize IOPS according to the application's demands.