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SAA-C03Question 12 of 20
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A company runs a reporting application on a single EC2 instance. The reports are generated overnight and the application is idle for the rest of the day. Interruptions are acceptable provided the job finishes before 07:00. Which purchase option gives the lowest cost?

A 1-year All Upfront Reserved Instance
Spot Instances managed by an Auto Scaling groupCorrect answer
On-Demand Instances with a scheduled start
Why

The workload is interruption-tolerant and runs in a window with slack in it, which is exactly the shape Spot is priced for — up to 90% below On-Demand. Reserved Instances and Savings Plans bill for a whole term regardless of use, so paying for 24 hours a day to run a job for three is more expensive than On-Demand, not less.

Cost OptimisationCompute costSpot InstancesMedium

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