AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) · Free practice question 10 of 12
Graviton instances for price-performance
Treadwell Apps runs a fleet of Linux-based microservices on x86 EC2 instances. The services are written in interpreted languages and are compiled for no specific CPU architecture. The team wants to improve price-performance for the fleet without changing the application's design. What should a solutions architect suggest evaluating first?
- A.Moving the fleet to Dedicated Hosts
- B.Moving the fleet to larger x86 instance sizes
- C.Moving the fleet to storage optimized instances
- D.Moving the fleet to AWS Graviton-based instances
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Correct answer: D. Moving the fleet to AWS Graviton-based instances
Why: AWS Graviton processors are Arm-based and are designed to offer better price-performance for many workloads, and applications in interpreted languages often run on them with minimal changes once dependencies support Arm. Dedicated Hosts and larger instances increase cost, and storage optimized instances target local disk I/O rather than general compute efficiency.
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