PAS-C01 Design of SAP Workloads on AWS Practice Question
A company is planning to run SAP HANA on AWS and needs to ensure that the database meets the required memory and CPU performance. Which instance family should the company choose for the SAP HANA database?
⚠ Common exam trap
A common mix-up: candidates confuse general-purpose or compute-optimized instances (like M5 or C5) as suitable for SAP HANA because they focus on CPU performance alone, ignoring the critical requirement for massive memory capacity and SAP certification that only the X1e family provides.
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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X1e instances
SAP HANA is an in-memory database that requires large amounts of RAM and high memory bandwidth to keep all data in memory for real-time processing. The X1e instance family is specifically designed for high-memory workloads like SAP HANA, offering up to 4 TB of memory and high-frequency Intel Xeon processors, making it the only instance family among the options that meets SAP's certified memory and CPU requirements.
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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T3 instances
Why it's wrong here
T3 instances are burstable and not suitable for production SAP HANA.
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M5 instances
Why it's wrong here
M5 instances are general-purpose, not certified for SAP HANA.
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C5 instances
Why it's wrong here
C5 instances are compute-optimized, not certified for SAP HANA.
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X1e instances
Why this is correct
X1e instances are SAP HANA certified.
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