AWS Certified SAP on AWS – Specialty (PAS-C01) — Question 123

A company is running an SAP Commerce application in a development environment. The company is ready to deploy the application to a production environment on AWS.

The company expects the production application to receive a large increase in transactions during sales and promotions. The application's database must automatically scale the storage, CPU, and memory to minimize costs during periods of low demand and maintain high availability and performance during periods of high demand.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Use an SAP HANA single-node deployment that runs on burstable performance Amazon EC2 instances.
• B. Use an Amazon Aurora MySQL database that runs on serverless DB instance types.
• C. Use a HyperSQL database that runs on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) containers with ECS Service Auto Scaling.
• D. Use an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB cluster that consists of high memory DB instance types.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B because Amazon Aurora's serverless option allows the database to automatically scale its resources based on demand, making it cost-effective during low demand while maintaining performance during peak times. Option A does not provide automatic scaling capabilities, C is not as optimized for the automatic scaling of database resources, and D lacks the serverless flexibility to adjust resources dynamically.