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A company requires an AWS-based HPC solution for financial risk modeling with Linux-based workloads on EC2 Spot Instances. The solution must support short-lived, high-volume instance operations and persistent storage for output files. Identify the AWS service combination that enables on-premises data transfer to persistent storage, high-performance file system integration for dataset management, and output file handling.
A company requires an AWS-based HPC solution for financial risk modeling with Linux-based workloads on EC2 Spot Instances. The solution must support short-lived, high-volume instance operations and persistent storage for output files. Identify the AWS service combination that enables on-premises data transfer to persistent storage, high-performance file system integration for dataset management, and output file handling.
Explanation:
The correct answer is A: Amazon FSx for Lustre integrated with Amazon S3. Amazon FSx for Lustre provides a high-performance file system optimized for fast processing of workloads such as those required for high performance computing (HPC). It is integrated with Amazon S3, allowing seamless transfer and storage of large datasets and output files. This combination meets the company's requirements for persistent, high-performance storage and facilitates data movement between on-premises and the cloud, making it available for processing by EC2 instances.