AWS Certified SAP on AWS – Specialty (PAS-C01) — Question 120

A company is planning to migrate its SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) 7.5 system on SAP HANA from on premises to AWS. The production database is 4 TB in size and has a scale-out architecture that consists of three nodes. Each node has 2 TB of memory. The company needs to keep the three SAP HANA nodes in the target architecture.

Which solution on AWS will provide the HIGHEST throughput for the SAP HANA database?

Answer options

• A. Implement SAP HANA scale-out Amazon EC2 instances with default tenancy.
• B. Implement SAP HANA scale-out Amazon EC2 instances with Capacity Reservations in a cluster placement group.
• C. Implement SAP HANA scale-out Amazon EC2 instances in a spread placement group.
• D. Implement SAP HANA scale-out Amazon EC2 instances in a partition placement group.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Option B is correct because using Capacity Reservations in a cluster placement group ensures that the EC2 instances are physically located close together, maximizing network throughput and reducing latency. The other options do not provide the same level of performance, as default tenancy and spread placement groups disperse instances across different hardware, leading to lower throughput.