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A company migrated to AWS and uses AWS Business Support.The company wants to monitor the cost-effectiveness of Amazon EC2 instances across AWS accounts.The EC2 instances have tags for department, business unit, and environment.Development EC2 instances have high cost but low utilization.The company needs to detect and stop any underutilized development EC2 instances.Instances are underutilized if they had 10% or less average daily CPU utilization and 5 MB or less network I/O for at least 4 of the past 14 days.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A financial services company has an asset management product that thousands of customers use around the world.The customers provide feedback about the product through surveys.The company is building a new analytical solution that runs on Amazon EMR to analyze the data from these surveys.The following user personas need to access the analytical solution to perform different actions:• Administrator: Provisions the EMR cluster for the analytics team based on the team’s requirements• Data engineer: Runs ETL scripts to process, transform, and enrich the datasets• Data analyst: Runs SQL and Hive queries on the dataA solutions architect must ensure that all the user personas have least privilege access to only the resources that they need.The user personas must be able to launch only applications that are approved and authorized.The solution also must ensure tagging for all resources that the user personas create.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A financial services company sells its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for application compliance to large global banks.The SaaS platform runs on AWS and uses multiple AWS accounts that are managed in an organization in AWS Organizations.The SaaS platform uses many AWS resources globally.For regulatory compliance, all API calls to AWS resources must be audited, tracked for changes, and stored in a durable and secure data store.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has a latency-sensitive trading platform that uses Amazon DynamoDB as a storage backend.The company configured the DynamoDB table to use on-demand capacity mode.A solutions architect needs to design a solution to improve the performance of the trading platform.The new solution must ensure high availability for the trading platform.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST latency?Read More →

A software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider exposes APIs through an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The ALB connects to an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster that is deployed in the us-east-1 Region.The exposed APIs contain usage of a few non-standard REST methods: LINK, UNLINK, LOCK, and UNLOCK.Users outside the United States are reporting long and inconsistent response times for these APIs.A solutions architect needs to resolve this problem with a solution that minimizes operational overhead.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is running an application that uses an Amazon ElastiCache for Redis cluster as a caching layer.A recent security audit revealed that the company has configured encryption at rest for ElastiCache.However, the company did not configure ElastiCache to use encryption in transit.Additionally, users can access the cache without authentication.A solutions architect must make changes to require user authentication and to ensure that the company is using end-to-end encryption.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is running a compute workload by using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances that are in an Auto Scaling group.The launch template uses two placement groups and a single instance type.Recently, a monitoring system reported Auto Scaling instance launch failures that correlated with longer wait times for system users.The company needs to improve the overall reliability of the workload.Which solution will meet this requirement?Read More →

A solutions architect wants to cost-optimize and appropriately size Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS account.The solutions architect wants to ensure that the instances are optimized based on CPU, memory, and network metrics.Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company is creating a sequel for a popular online game.A large number of users from all over the world will play the game within the first week after launch.Currently, the game consists of the following components deployed in a single AWS Region:• Amazon S3 bucket that stores game assets• Amazon DynamoDB table that stores player scoresA solutions architect needs to design a multi-Region solution that will reduce latency, improve reliability, and require the least effort to implement.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is migrating a document processing workload to AWS.The company has updated many applications to natively use the Amazon S3 API to store, retrieve, and modify documents that a processing server generates at a rate of approximately 5 documents every second.After the document processing is finished, customers can download the documents directly from Amazon S3.During the migration, the company discovered that it could not immediately update the processing server that generates many documents to support the S3 API.The server runs on Linux and requires fast local access to the files that the server generates and modifies.When the server finishes processing, the files must be available to the public for download within 30 minutes.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort?Read More →