PAS-C01 Design of SAP Workloads on AWS Practice Question
A company is running SAP HANA on an r5.8xlarge instance. They want to scale up to meet increased memory requirements. Which instance family would be the MOST suitable for a scale-up scenario?
⚠ Common exam trap
Many exam-takers choose the r5.24xlarge because it is memory-optimized, but they overlook that the X1e family offers much higher memory capacity specifically required for SAP HANA scale-up scenarios.
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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x1e.32xlarge
The x1e.32xlarge instance is part of the X1e family, which is specifically designed for high-memory workloads like SAP HANA. With 3,904 GiB of memory, it provides the largest memory capacity among AWS instances, making it the most suitable for scaling up SAP HANA to meet increased memory requirements. SAP HANA is an in-memory database, so scaling up requires instances with high memory-to-vCPU ratios, which the X1e family delivers.
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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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x1e.32xlarge
Why this is correct
x1e is designed for large SAP HANA scale-up.
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r5.24xlarge
Why it's wrong here
r5 is smaller than x1e for scale-up.
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i3.16xlarge
Why it's wrong here
i3 is storage-optimized.
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c5.18xlarge
Why it's wrong here
c5 is compute-optimized, not memory-optimized.
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