PAS-C01 Design of SAP Workloads on AWS Practice Question
A company is deploying SAP Business Suite on AWS. They need to ensure that the SAP system can handle a sudden increase in user load without manual intervention. Which AWS service should be used to automatically scale the SAP application servers?
⚠ Common exam trap
Many candidates confuse Elastic Load Balancing with auto-scaling, thinking that load balancing alone provides elasticity, but ELB only distributes traffic and does not manage instance count.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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AWS Auto Scaling
AWS Auto Scaling is the correct service because it automatically adjusts the number of SAP application server instances based on demand, using scaling policies tied to metrics like CPU utilization or memory. This ensures the SAP system can handle sudden user load spikes without manual intervention, which is a core requirement for elastic SAP deployments on AWS.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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AWS Lambda
Why it's wrong here
Lambda is for event-driven code execution, not for scaling EC2.
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Amazon Elastic Container Service
Why it's wrong here
ECS is for containerized applications, not typical SAP NetWeaver.
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Elastic Load Balancing
Why it's wrong here
ELB distributes traffic but does not automatically scale instances.
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AWS Auto Scaling
Why this is correct
Auto Scaling adjusts the number of EC2 instances automatically.
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