Data World 5 · Warehouse and Scale · Stage 6

Right Engine, Right Price

Four workloads, one price list: the cheapest engine that finishes in time, with the least to run.

  • Glue Flex
  • EMR on EC2 and Spot
  • EMR on EKS
  • Lambda limits
  • Bedrock batch inference
Domain
Data engineering
World
Data World 5: Warehouse and Scale (Associate)
Game type
Solution board: Drop services into each row's slots, then run records through them.
Time
About 30 minutes on a first attempt (estimated)
Exam guides
  • SAA-C03Task 4.2: Design cost-optimized compute solutions
  • DEA-C01Skill 1.2.5: Implement data transformation services based on requirements (for example, Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, Lambda, Amazon Redshift); Skill 1.2.4: Optimize costs while processing data; Skill 1.2.1: Optimize container usage for performance needs (for example, Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS); Skill 3.1.4: Use the features of AWS services to process data (for example, Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, AWS Glue); Skill 3.2.5: Describe tradeoffs between provisioned services and serverless services; Skill 1.2.10: Integrate large language models (LLMs) for data processing
  • SAP-C02Task 2.6: Determine a cost optimization strategy to meet solution goals and objectives