AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 Practice Question
An investment bank runs a latency-sensitive pricing engine on Amazon EC2. The engine's nodes are placed in an EFA-enabled cluster placement group. Benchmarks show the code is CPU-bound, requires a sustained all-core turbo frequency above 3.5 GHz, and needs at least 300 Gbps of Elastic Fabric Adapter bandwidth to keep inter-node latency within the service-level objective. The software is licensed per core and depends on x86 AVX-512 instructions, so the team wants to maximize performance per licensed core while keeping costs low. Which EC2 instance family should the solutions architect select to meet these requirements with the best price/performance?
Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instances powered by AWS Graviton3E processors
Amazon EC2 C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors
Amazon EC2 Hpc6id instances with local NVMe storage and 3rd Gen Intel Xeon processors
Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors
Hpc7a instances meet every stated requirement: they deliver 300 Gbps of dedicated EFA bandwidth, run on 4th-generation AMD EPYC "Genoa" CPUs with an all-core turbo around 3.7 GHz, and offer core-count-tuned sizes that let teams disable unused cores to raise per-core performance and reduce license costs. Hpc7g instances are Arm-based and limited to 200 Gbps; Hpc6id tops out at 200 Gbps and only reaches 3.5 GHz; C7i provides a maximum of 50 Gbps and is not optimized for tightly coupled HPC. Therefore, Hpc7a provides the required network throughput, CPU frequency, architectural compatibility, and superior price/performance.
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