AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C02) — Question 657

A company is implementing a shared storage solution for gaming application that is hosted in an on-premises data center. The company needs to ability to use
Lustre clients to access data. The solution must be fully managed.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Create an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway. Create a file share that uses the required client protocol. Connect the application server to the file share.
• B. Create an Amazon EC2 Windows instance. Install and configure a Windows file share role on the instance. Connect the application server to the file share.
• C. Create an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system, and configure it to support Lustre. Attach the file system to the origin server. Connect the application server to the file system.
• D. Create an Amazon FSx for Lustre file system. Attach the file system to the origin server. Connect the application server to the file system.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

Amazon FSx for Lustre is a fully managed service that natively supports Lustre clients, making it the perfect fit for high-performance workloads. Other services like Amazon EFS and AWS Storage Gateway do not support the Lustre protocol. Setting up an Amazon EC2 Windows instance is not a fully managed solution and does not natively support Lustre client access.