A batch workload takes 5 hours to finish on an Amazon EC2 instance. The amount of data to be processed doubles monthly and the processing time is proportional. What is the best cloud architecture to address this consistently growing demand?
A) Run the application on a bigger EC2 instance size.
B) Switch to an EC2 instance family that better matches batch requirements.
C) Distribute the application across multiple EC2 instances and run the workload in parallel.
D) Run the application on a bare metal EC2 instance.

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Distributing the application across multiple EC2 instances and running the workload in parallel allows for scaling out, which is more efficient for handling consistently growing data processing demands.

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