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A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group.The company uses AWS CodePipeline to deploy the application.The instances that run in the Auto Scaling group are constantly changing because of scaling events.When the company deploys new application code versions, the company installs the AWS CodeDeploy agent on any new target EC2 instances and associates the instances with the CodeDeploy deployment group.The application is set to go live within the next 24 hours.What should a solutions architect recommend to automate the application deployment process with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

A large payroll company recently merged with a small staffing company.The unified company now has multiple business units, each with its own existing AWS account.A solutions architect must ensure that the company can centrally manage the billing and access policies for all the AWS accounts.The solutions architect configures AWS Organizations by sending an invitation to all member accounts of the company from a centralized management account.What should the solutions architect do next to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company’s lease of a colocated storage facility will expire in 90 days.The company wants to move to AWS to avoid signing a contract extension.The company’s environment consists of 200 virtual machines and a NAS with 40 TB of data.Most of the data is archival, yet instant access is required when data is requested.Leadership wants to ensure minimal downtime during the migration.Each virtual machine has a number of customized configurations.The company’s existing 1Gbps network connection is mostly idle, especially after business hours.Which combination of steps should the company take to migrate to AWS while minimizing downtime and operational impact? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company uses AWS Organizations for a multi-account setup in the AWS Cloud.The company uses AWS Control Tower for governance and uses AWS Transit Gateway for VPC connectivity across accounts.In an AWS application account, the company’s application team has deployed a web application that uses AWS Lambda and Amazon RDS.The company’s database administrators have a separate DBA account and use the account to centrally manage all the databases across the organization.The database administrators use an Amazon EC2 instance that is deployed in the DBA account to access an RDS database that is deployed m the application account.The application team has stored the database credentials as secrets in AWS Secrets Manager in the application account.The application team is manually sharing the secrets with the database administrators.The secrets are encrypted by the default AWS managed key for Secrets Manager in the application account.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution that gives the database administrators access to the database and eliminates the need to manually share the secrets.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →