AWS Certified SAP on AWS – Specialty (PAS-C01) — Question 82

A company needs to migrate its SAP HANA landscape from an on-premises data center to AWS. The company's existing SAP HANA database instance is oversized. The company must resize the database instance as part of the migration.

Which combination of steps should the company take to ensure that the target Amazon EC2 instance is sized optimally for the SAP HANA database instance? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Determine the peak memory utilization of the existing on-premises SAP HANA system.
• B. Determine the average memory utilization of the existing on-premises SAP HANA system.
• C. For the target system, select any SAP certified EC2 instance that provides more memory than the current average memory utilization.
• D. For the target system, select the smallest SAP certified EC2 instance that provides more memory than the current peak memory utilization.
• E. For the target system, select any current-generation EC2 memory optimized instance.

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct approach involves determining the peak memory utilization (Option A) to ensure that the new instance can handle maximum loads, while selecting the smallest SAP certified EC2 instance that exceeds this peak (Option D) optimizes costs. Options B and C are inadequate because they do not take peak usage into account, and option E lacks specificity in ensuring that the instance is correctly sized based on actual requirements.