Question
A company plans to migrate several of its high performance computing (HPC) virtual machines (VMs) to Amazon EC2 instances on AWS. A CloudOps engineer must identify a placement group for this deployment. The strategy must minimize network latency and must maximize network throughput between the HPC VMs.
Which strategy should the CloudOps engineer choose to meet these requirements?
- A. Deploy the instances in a cluster placement group in one Availability Zone. Correct
- B. Deploy the instances in a partition placement group in two Availability Zones.
- C. Deploy the instances in a partition placement group in one Availability Zone.
- D. Deploy the instances in a spread placement group in two Availability Zones.
Explanation
According to AWS documentation, a cluster placement group is designed for workloads that benefit from the lowest possible network latency and the highest possible network throughput. By deploying instances within a single Availability Zone in a cluster placement group, the CloudOps engineer can ensure minimized network latency and maximized network throughput between the HPC VMs.
