A media and entertainment company utilizes several scripts to schedule daily tasks that drive lots of EC2 instances to enable accelerated and automated processing of data. This mainly aims for the compilation and processing of files, graphics, and visual effects. However, the operation manager is unsatisfied with the way that the tasks are scheduled and assigned you a task to choose AWS Batch instead. Which components of AWS Batch do you need to create? (Select TWO)

Answer options:

A.An Auto Scaling configuration for the AWS Batch computer resources to use.
B.A job that runs as a containerized application on an Amazon EC2 instance, using parameters that you specify in a job definition.
C.A compute environment that is a set of compute resources for running jobs.
D.An SQS queue that AWS Batch uses to execute tasks. When there is a message in the queue, it is scheduled onto an AWS Batch compute environment.

Correct Answer – B, C
As a fully managed service, AWS Batch enables you to run batch computing workloads of any scale. The key components of AWS Batch are as below.
1, Jobs: A unit of work (such as a shell script, a Linux executable, or a Docker container image) that you submit to AWS Batch.
2, Job Definitions: A job definition specifies how jobs are to be run; you can think of it as a blueprint for the resources in your job.
3, Job Queues: When you submit an AWS Batch job, you submit it to a particular job queue, where it resides until it is scheduled onto a compute environment.
4, Compute Environment: A compute environment is a set of managed or unmanaged compute resources used to run jobs.
Option A is incorrect: Because in AWS Batch, you do not need to configure the Auto Scaling settings that AWS Batch takes care of.
Option B is CORRECT: Because a job is required for AWS Batch to understand the task.
Option C is CORRECT: Because the compute environment is where AWS Batch executes the specific tasks.
Option D is incorrect: Because AWS Batch uses a job queue rather than an SQS queue where you submit the AWS Batch job.