An IoT company wants to release a new device that will collect data to track sleep overnight on an intelligent mattress. Sensors will send data that will be uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket. About 2 MB of data is generated each night for each bed. Data must be processed and summarized for each user, and the results need to be available as soon as possible. Part of the process consists of time windowing and other functions. Based on tests with a Python script, every run will require about 1 GB of memory and will complete within a couple of minutes. Which solution will run the script in the MOST cost-effective way?
A) AWS Lambda with a Python script
B) AWS Glue with a Scala job
C) Amazon EMR with an Apache Spark script
D) AWS Glue with a PySpark job

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AWS Lambda is the most cost-effective solution for running short-lived tasks that require up to 1 GB of memory. It can handle the processing of the data efficiently and is suitable for the described workload.

An IoT Company Wants to Release a New Device That