Review Questions

You have a data analysis application that uses high compute instances along with RDS to do biological analysis on large datasets. The computations are not time sensitive and can be run anytime throughout the day. However, because of the high compute resources required, the processing is quite expensive. What could you do to defray these costs? (Choose two.)

1. Purchase reserved instances and pay entirely up front for the instance usage charges.
2. Use the spot market, setting a bid price lower than the current on-demand pricing.
3. Lower the instance class to a less costly class and allow the processing to run longer at lower per-instance costs.
4. Contact AWS and ask for discounted instance pricing based on your recurring usage.

Which of the following are valid payment options for reserved instances? (Choose two.)

1. Actual usage pricing
2. Predictive pricing
3. All up-front pricing
4. Nothing up-front pricing

How do you move a reserved instance from one region to another?

1. Shut...