A company wants to reduce costs on jobs that can be completed at any time. The jobs are currently run using multiple On-Demand Instances, and the jobs take just under 2 hours to complete. If a job fails for any reason, it can be restarted from the beginning. Which method is the MOST cost-effective based on these requirements?
A) Purchase Reserved Instances to be used for job execution.
B) Submit a request for a one-time Spot Instance for job execution.
C) Submit a request for a Spot block to be used for job execution.
D) Use a mixture of On-Demand and Spot Instances for job execution.

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Spot blocks allow you to reserve Spot Instances for a fixed duration, which is suitable for jobs that take just under 2 hours, providing cost savings compared to On-Demand Instances.

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