Clarification on a Cost Control Question

[jithin]

I found the below question in one of the Tutorials Dojo Practice exam and I have a doubt if the option is the most suited one.

Question:

A leading news company produces new high-definition video files every day in their on-premises network which is then compressed to a single file with a total size of around 200 GB. The generated file needs to be uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket from 12 AM to 2 AM every midnight for storage. Your current network bandwidth is 30MB/sec and you want to maximize its throughput.

Which of the following is the best and most cost-effective option which will ensure that the file uploads are completed in the allotted time window?

Solution:

The answer given by tutorials dojo is s3 multi part upload. But I notice that file size is 200 gb and network speed is 30mbps and we need to complete the upload in 12-2am window.

So if we calculate the bandwidth(30mbpsx60x120)/1024 = 210 gb of data bandwidth i.e mas x DAta upload possible in case the network performs in optimum range

So would S3 multipart be a correct choice here?

[Carlo-TutorialsDojo]

Hello jithin,

First of all, Bandwidth should not be confused for throughput. There are a lot of factors that affects throughput such as latency, throttling of your ISP, packet loss, communication medium , and etc. It is really impossible to determine what your throughput will be as it is a case to case basis. But for the sake of the question, let’s pretend that we are in a ideal evironment.

Even with a great network connection, you can’t fully utilize its bandwidth. The limitations of the TCP/IP protocol make it very difficult for a single application to saturate a network connection.

So, in order to maximize the 30/MB bandwidth, we have to use multithreading which s3 multipart upload uses. We can break the 200GB file size into 10,000 parts each having a size of 20MB. Let’s say that we are using the default concurrency configuration of multipart upload which is 10 concurrent requests. Considering an ideal environment, each processes will have a throughput of about 24Mbit/s or 3 MB/s. A single 20 MB file would take 6.6666 seconds to upload. But since we are uploading concurrently, 10s of these 20 MB files are uploaded at a single time.

10,000/ 10 = 1,000 batches.

Each batch would take 6.6666 seconds to complete. 1,000 * 6.6666 is approximately 6,6666 seconds or 1.83 hours.

1.83 hours < 2 hours. So, yes. S3 multi-part upload is the correct answer.

Regards,

Carlo@TutorialsDojo

[jithin]

[Carlo-TutorialsDojo]

Hello jithin,

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Carlo @ TutorialsDojo