SAA-C03 Q614 · Compute

Question

A company is developing a containerized web application that needs to be highly available and scalable. The application requires access to GPU resources. Which solution will meet this requirement?

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**Option D: Amazon ECS with EC2 GPU instances** satisfies every requirement:

1. **Containerized application**: Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service, purpose-built to run Docker containers at scale.

2. **Highly available and scalable**: ECS supports Auto Scaling groups across multiple Availability Zones, service auto scaling, and integrates with Elastic Load Balancing. This delivers both HA and scalability.

3. **GPU access**: By using EC2 instances from GPU instance families (e.g., **P3, P4, P5, G4, G5, G6**), containers running on ECS can directly access NVIDIA GPUs. ECS has native GPU support — you specify the number of GPUs required in the task definition, and ECS schedules containers onto instances with available GPU resources.

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