A solutions architect is designing a system to analyze the performance of financial markets while the markets are closed. The system will run a series of compute-intensive jobs for 4 hours every night. The time to complete the compute jobs is expected to remain constant, and jobs cannot be interrupted once started. Once completed, the system is expected to run for a minimum of 1 year. Which type of Amazon EC2 instances should be used to reduce the cost of the system?

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Scheduled Reserved Instances are suitable for workloads that run on a predictable schedule, such as the nightly 4-hour compute jobs in this scenario. They provide cost savings over On-Demand Instances and are ideal for jobs that cannot be interrupted.

A Solutions Architect Is Designing a System to Analyze the Performance