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A company hosts an application used to upload files to an Amazon S3 bucket.Once uploaded, the files are processed to extract metadata, which takes less than5 seconds.The volume and frequency of the uploads varies from a few files each hour to hundreds of concurrent uploads.The company has asked a solutions architect to design a cost-effective architecture that will meet these requirements.What should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company that hosts its web application on AWS wants to ensure all Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon RDS DB instances, and Amazon Redshift clusters are configured with tags.The company wants to minimize the effort of configuring and operating this check.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?Read More →

A company is designing a new web application that the company will deploy into a single AWS Region.The application requires a two-tier architecture that will include Amazon EC2 instances and an Amazon RDS DB instance.A solutions architect needs to design the application so that all components are highly available.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company hosts multiple production applications.One of the applications consists of resources from Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon RDS, Amazon SimpleNotification Service (Amazon SNS), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) across multiple AWS Regions.All company resources are tagged with a tag name of `application` and a value that corresponds to each application.A solutions architect must provide the quickest solution for identifying all of the tagged components.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is deploying a multi-instance application within AWS that requires minimal latency between the instances.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company receives 10 TB of instrumentation data each day from several machines located at a single factory.The data consists of JSON files stored on a storage area network (SAN) in an on-premises data center located within the factory.The company wants to send this data to Amazon S3 where it can be accessed by several additional systems that provide critical near-real-lime analytics.A secure transfer is important because the data is considered sensitive.Which solution offers the MOST reliable data transfer?Read More →

A company has multiple AWS accounts with applications deployed in the us-west-2 Region.Application logs are stored within Amazon S3 buckets in each account.The company wants to build a centralized log analysis solution that uses a single S3 bucket.Logs must not leave us-west-2, and the company wants to incur minimal operational overhead.Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?Read More →

A company is hosting its website by using Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer across multiple Availability Zones.The instances run in anEC2 Auto Scaling group.The website uses Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes to store product manuals for users to download.The company updates the product content often, so new instances launched by the Auto Scaling group often have old data.It can take up to 30 minutes for the new instances to receive all the updates.The updates also require the EBS volumes to be resized during business hours.The company wants to ensure that the product manuals are always up to date on all instances and that the architecture adjusts quickly to increased user demand.A solutions architect needs to meet these requirements without causing the company to update its application code or adjust its website.What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?Read More →

A company’s database is hosted on an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster in the us-east-1 Region.The database is 4 TB in size.The company needs to expand its disaster recovery strategy to the us-west-2 Region.The company must have the ability to fail over to us-west-2 with a recovery time objective (RTO) of 15 minutes.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has deployed a multiplayer game for mobile devices.The game requires live location tracking of players based on latitude and longitude.The data store for the game must support rapid updates and retrieval of locations.The game uses an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance with read replicas to store the location data.During peak usage periods, the database is unable to maintain the performance that is needed for reading and writing updates.The game’s user base is increasing rapidly.What should a solutions architect do to improve the performance of the data tier?Read More →