SAA-C03 Q468 · Compute

Question

A company is migrating a daily Microsoft Windows batch job from the company's onpremises environment to AWS. The current batch job runs for up to 1 hour. The company wants to modernize the batch job process for the cloud environment. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

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**Option C: AWS Fargate + AWS Batch** satisfies every requirement:

1. **Windows batch job support**: AWS Fargate supports Windows containers, and AWS Batch can orchestrate them. The batch job can be containerized (modernization).

2. **Modernization**: Containerizing the batch job is a clear modernization step — moving from a monolithic on-premises Windows script to a portable, version-controlled container image.

3. **Up to 1 hour runtime**: AWS Batch with Fargate easily handles jobs running for 1 hour. There is no 15-minute timeout like Lambda.

4. **LEAST operational overhead**: 
   - **AWS Fargate** = serverless compute for containers. No EC2 instances to manage, patch, or scale.
   - **AWS Batch** = fully managed job scheduling. It handles job queuing, compute environment provisionin

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