AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C02) — Question 674

A company is architecting a shared storage solution for a gaming application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud. The company needs the 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 DataSync task that shares the data as a mountable file system. Mount the file system to the application server.
• B. 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.
• 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 specifically designed to provide high-performance storage that natively supports Lustre clients. In contrast, Amazon EFS only supports the NFS protocol and cannot be configured for Lustre. AWS DataSync and AWS Storage Gateway are data transfer and hybrid storage integration services, respectively, and do not offer a fully managed Lustre file system solution.