SAA-C03 Q382 · Compute

Question

A company runs HPC workloads requiring high IOPS. Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Select TWO)

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**Requirement: HPC workloads with high IOPS**

**B - Amazon FSx for Lustre:**
- Lustre is THE purpose-built high-performance parallel file system designed specifically for HPC workloads.
- Delivers sub-millisecond latencies, hundreds of GB/s throughput, and millions of IOPS.
- Lustre is an industry-standard open-source parallel file system widely used in supercomputing and HPC environments.
- Can be linked to S3 for seamless data processing pipelines.

**E - Cluster placement group + Mixed instances + Amazon EMR:**
- **Cluster placement group** packs instances physically close together in a single Availability Zone, providing the lowest network latency and highest network throughput between instances — essential for tightly-coupled HPC workloads.
- **Mixed instance types** in Auto Scaling

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