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A company has more than 5 TB of file data on Windows file servers that run on premises.Users and applications interact with the data each day.The company is moving its Windows workloads to AWS.As the company continues this process, the company requires access to AWS and on-premises file storage with minimum latency.The company needs a solution that minimizes operational overhead and requires no significant changes to the existing file access patterns.The company uses an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection for connectivity to AWS.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A hospital recently deployed a RESTful API with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda.The hospital uses API Gateway and Lambda to upload reports that are in PDF format and JPEG format.The hospital needs to modify the Lambda code to identify protected health information (PHI) in the reports.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has an application that generates a large number of files, each approximately 5 MB in size.The files are stored in Amazon S3.Company policy requires the files to be stored for 4 years before they can be deleted.Immediate accessibility is always required as the files contain critical business data that is not easy to reproduce.The files are frequently accessed in the first 30 days of the object creation but are rarely accessed after the first 30 days.Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?Read More →

A company hosts an application on multiple Amazon EC2 instances.The application processes messages from an Amazon SQS queue, writes to an Amazon RDS table, and deletes the message from the queue.Occasional duplicate records are found in the RDS table.The SQS queue does not contain any duplicate messages.What should a solutions architect do to ensure messages are being processed once only?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a new hybrid architecture to extend a company’s on-premises infrastructure to AWS.The company requires a highly available connection with consistent low latency to an AWS Region.The company needs to minimize costs and is willing to accept slower traffic if the primary connection fails.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is running a business-critical web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group.The application uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database that is deployed in a single Availability Zone.The company wants the application to be highly available with minimum downtime and minimum loss of data.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?Read More →

A company’s HTTP application is behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB).The NLB’s target group is configured to use an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group with multiple EC2 instances that run the web service.The company notices that the NLB is not detecting HTTP errors for the application.These errors require a manual restart of the EC2 instances that run the web service.The company needs to improve the application’s availability without writing custom scripts or code.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs a shopping application that uses Amazon DynamoDB to store customer information.In case of data corruption, a solutions architect needs to design a solution that meets a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes and a recovery time objective (RTO) of 1 hour.What should the solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company runs a photo processing application that needs to frequently upload and download pictures from Amazon S3 buckets that are located in the same AWS Region.A solutions architect has noticed an increased cost in data transfer fees and needs to implement a solution to reduce these costs.How can the solutions architect meet this requirement?Read More →

A company recently migrated a message processing system to AWS.The system receives messages into an ActiveMQ queue running on an Amazon EC2 instance.Messages are processed by a consumer application running on Amazon EC2.The consumer application processes the messages and writes results to a MySQL database running on Amazon EC2.The company wants this application to be highly available with low operational complexity.Which architecture offers the HIGHEST availability?Read More →