Correct Answer: It saves the RAM state to the root EBS volume, allowing the instance to start from where it left off instead of rebooting
Hibernation speeds up the 'restart' of applications that take a long time to boot or load data into memory....
Correct Answer
It saves the RAM state to the root EBS volume, allowing the instance to start from where it left off instead of rebooting
Why This Answer Is Correct
Hibernation speeds up the 'restart' of applications that take a long time to boot or load data into memory.
This question evaluates your knowledge of Amazon EC2 — a core concept tested in AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03). Understanding Amazon EC2 is essential for designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures. Mastery of this topic will help you answer scenario-based questions confidently on exam day.
Your application requires high CPU performance for compute-intensive workloads like video encoding. Which Amazon EC2 instance type is optimized for this?
An application consists of an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances behind an ALB. During a traffic spike, the instances are reaching 100% CPU, but the Auto Scaling group is not adding more instances quickly enough. Which configuration change would improve responsiveness?
A company wants to run a legacy application that requires a fixed physical server for licensing reasons and must be able to withstand the failure of an entire Availability Zone. Which EC2 feature meets the licensing need?
An architect is selecting an EC2 instance for a memory-intensive SAP HANA database. Which instance family should be preferred?
A solutions architect needs to cost-effectively run a batch processing workload that can be interrupted at any time and resumed later. Which purchasing option provides the highest savings?