A county assessor runs heavy valuation jobs once per month and currently keeps a large EC2 grid powered all month. What cost-optimized alternative should the architect propose?
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Short Explanation
A month-long idle compute farm for a one-day valuation crunch is budget poison. AWS Batch spins capacity for the job window—optionally on Spot—and lets you stop paying for empty metal the other three weeks.
Full Explanation
AWS Batch provisions compute for submitted jobs and scales away when queues drain, aligning cost with monthly assessor workloads. Permanent oversized EC2 grids and Dedicated Hosts bill through idle periods. SQS can buffer work but does not execute valuation compute by itself.