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A company runs a self-managed Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).Daily snapshots are taken of the EBS volumes.Recently, all the company’s EBS snapshots were accidentally deleted while running a snapshot cleaning script that deletes all expired EBS snapshots.A solutions architect needs to update the architecture to prevent data loss without retaining EBS snapshots indefinitely.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?Read More →

A company is building an application in the AWS Cloud.The application is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The company uses Amazon Route 53 for the DNS.The company needs a managed solution with proactive engagement to detect against DDoS attacks.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company recently migrated a monolithic application to an Amazon EC2 instance and Amazon RDS.The application has tightly coupled modules.The existing design of the application gives the application the ability to run on only a single EC2 instance.The company has noticed high CPU utilization on the EC2 instance during peak usage times.The high CPU utilization corresponds to degraded performance on Amazon RDS for read requests.The company wants to reduce the high CPU utilization and improve read request performance.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to host a scalable web application on AWS.The application will be accessed by users from different geographic regions of the world.Application users will be able to download and upload unique data up to gigabytes in size.The development team wants a cost-effective solution to minimize upload and download latency and maximize performance.What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this?Read More →

A finance company uses an on-premises search application to collect streaming data from various producers.The application provides real-time updates to search and visualization features.The company is planning to migrate to AWS and wants to use an AWS native solution.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing the cloud architecture for a new stateless application that will be deployed on AWS.The solutions architect created an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and launch template for the application.Based on the number of jobs that need to be processed, the processing must run in parallel while adding and removing application Amazon EC2 instances as needed.The application must be loosely coupled.The job items must be durably stored.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is developing a new application that uses a relational database to store user data and application configurations.The company expects the application to have steady user growth.The company expects the database usage to be variable and read-heavy, with occasional writes.The company wants to cost-optimize the database solution.The company wants to use an AWS managed database solution that will provide the necessary performance.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has an internal application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group.The EC2 instances are compute optimized and use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes.The company wants to identify cost optimizations across the EC2 instances, the Auto Scaling group, and the EBS volumes.Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?Read More →

A business application is hosted on Amazon EC2 and uses Amazon S3 for encrypted object storage.The chief information security officer has directed that no application traffic between the two services should traverse the public internet.Which capability should the solutions architect use to meet the compliance requirements?Read More →

A company is running an online transaction processing (OLTP) workload on AWS.This workload uses an unencrypted Amazon RDS DB instance in a Multi-AZ deployment.Daily database snapshots are taken from this instance.What should a solutions architect do to ensure the database and snapshots are always encrypted moving forward?Read More →