SAA-C03 Q466 · Storage

Question

A company is deploying a new gaming application on Amazon EC2 instances. The gaming application needs to have access to shared storage. The company requires a high-performance solution to give the application the ability to use an existing custom protocol to access shared storage. The solution must ensure low latency and must be operationally efficient. Which solution will meet these requirements?

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**Amazon FSx for Lustre** is purpose-built for high-performance computing (HPC) and gaming workloads. Here's how it satisfies every requirement:

1. **Shared storage**: FSx for Lustre is a fully managed shared file system that multiple EC2 instances can access simultaneously via POSIX-compliant file system interfaces.

2. **High performance**: Lustre is one of the world's most popular high-performance file systems, delivering sub-millisecond latencies, up to hundreds of GB/s throughput, and millions of IOPS. This is ideal for gaming applications.

3. **Custom protocol support**: Lustre uses its own native protocol (the Lustre protocol) which is POSIX-compliant. The key insight is that Lustre itself IS a custom/specialized protocol — the question's mention of 'existing custom protocol' alig

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