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A solutions architect is designing the data storage and retrieval architecture for a new application that a company will be launching soon.The application is designed to ingest millions of small records per minute from devices all around the world.Each record is less than 4 KB in size and needs to be stored in a durable location where it can be retrieved with low latency.The data is ephemeral and the company is required to store the data for 120 days only, after which the data can be deleted.The solutions architect calculates that, during the course of a year, the storage requirements would be about 10-15 TB.Which storage strategy is the MOST cost-effective and meets the design requirements?Read More →

A company has mounted sensors to collect information about environmental parameters such as humidity and light throughout all the company’s factories.The company needs to stream and analyze the data in the AWS Cloud in real time.If any of the parameters fall out of acceptable ranges, the factory operations team must receive a notification immediately.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A life sciences company is using a combination of open source tools to manage data analysis workflows and Docker containers running on servers in its on- premises data center to process genomics data.Sequencing data is generated and stored on a local storage area network (SAN), and then the data is processed.The research and development teams are running into capacity issues and have decided to re-architect their genomics analysis platform on AWS to scale based on workload demands and reduce the turnaround time from weeks to days.The company has a high-speed AWS Direct Connect connection.Sequencers will generate around 200 GB of data for each genome, and individual jobs can take several hours to process the data with ideal compute capacity.The end result will be stored in Amazon S3.The company is expecting 10-15 job requests each day.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts a web application on AWS in the us-east-1 Region.The application servers are distributed across three Availability Zones behind an Application Load Balancer.The database is hosted in a MySQL database on an Amazon EC2 instance.A solutions architect needs to design a cross-Region data recovery solution using AWS services with an RTO of less than 5 minutes and an RPO of less than 1 minute.The solutions architect is deploying application servers in us-west-2, and has configured Amazon Route 53 health checks and DNS failover to us-west-2.Which additional step should the solutions architect take?Read More →