PAS-C01 Technology Practice Question
A company is migrating its SAP landscape to AWS. They have a mix of production and non-production systems. The SAP systems use a shared storage architecture for transport directories. Which AWS storage solution should be used for the SAP transport directory to provide low-latency access across multiple EC2 instances in the same region?
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Amazon EFS
Amazon EFS provides a scalable, shared file system accessible from multiple EC2 instances with low latency, ideal for SAP transport directories. Amazon S3 is object storage, not a file system. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is for Windows workloads. Amazon EBS volumes can only be attached to one instance at a time (except for multi-attach, which has limitations).
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Amazon EFS
Why this is correct
Amazon EFS provides a scalable, shared file system accessible from multiple EC2 instances with low latency, ideal for SAP transport directories.
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Amazon EBS with multi-attach
Why it's wrong here
EBS multi-attach has limitations (max 16 instances, not supported for all instance types) and is not the recommended solution for shared storage like transport directories.
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Amazon S3 with S3FS
Why it's wrong here
S3 is object storage; using S3FS introduces performance overhead and is not recommended for SAP transport directories requiring low latency.
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Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
Why it's wrong here
FSx for Windows is for Windows workloads; SAP typically runs on Linux.
Quick reference
AWS S3 Storage Class Comparison
| Storage Class | Min Duration | Retrieval | Use Case |
|---|---|---|---|
| S3 Standard | None | Immediate | Frequently accessed data |
| S3 Standard-IA | 30 days | Immediate | Infrequent access, rapid retrieval |
| S3 One Zone-IA | 30 days | Immediate | Non-critical infrequent data |
| S3 Intelligent-Tiering | None | Immediate–hours | Unknown or changing access patterns |
| S3 Glacier Instant | 90 days | Milliseconds | Archive with instant retrieval |
| S3 Glacier Flexible | 90 days | Minutes–hours | Archive, flexible retrieval |
| S3 Glacier Deep Archive | 180 days | Hours | Long-term compliance archive |
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