SAA-C03 Q152 · Compute

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A company's SAP application has a backend SQL Server database in an on-premises environment. The company wants to migrate its on-premises application and database server to AWS. The company needs an instance type that meets the high demands of its SAP database. On-premises performance data shows that both the SAP application and the database have high memory utilization. Which solution will meet these requirements?

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The question states two critical facts: (1) Both the SAP application AND the database have **high memory utilization**, and (2) the workload is SAP with SQL Server backend, which is inherently memory-intensive.

**Why memory optimized for both?**
- **SAP applications** are well-known for being memory-hungry. SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver, and other SAP workloads maintain large data structures in memory for fast processing. Even non-HANA SAP applications require significant memory for caching, buffering, and concurrent user sessions.
- **SQL Server databases** benefit enormously from large memory pools. SQL Server uses memory for buffer pool cache (keeping frequently accessed data pages in RAM), query execution plans, and sort/hash operations.
- The on-premises performance data **explicitly confi

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