What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

2025-10-20
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A financial services company wants to shut down two data centers and migrate more than 100 TB of data to AWS.The data has an intricate directory structure with millions of small files stored in deep hierarchies of subfolders.Most of the data is unstructured, and the company’s file storage consists of SMB-based storage types from multiple vendors.The company does not want to change its applications to access the data after migration.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

Which solution will meet these requirements?

2025-10-20
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In: SAP-C01
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A large mobile gaming company has successfully migrated all of its on-premises infrastructure to the AWS Cloud.A solutions architect is reviewing the environment to ensure that it was built according to the design and that it is running in alignment with the Well-Architected Framework.While reviewing previous monthly costs in Cost Explorer, the solutions architect notices that the creation and subsequent termination of several large instance types account for a high proportion of the costs.The solutions architect finds out that the company’s developers are launching new Amazon EC2 instances as part of their testing and that the developers are not using the appropriate instance types.The solutions architect must implement a control mechanism to limit the instance types that only the developers can launch.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?

2025-10-20
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A company provides an online service for posting video content and transcoding it for use by any mobile platform.The application architecture uses AmazonElastic File System (Amazon EFS) Standard to collect and store the videos so that multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances can access the video content for processing.As the popularity of the service has grown over time, the storage costs have become too expensive.Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?Read More →

Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

2025-10-20
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An ecommerce application uses Java Message Service (JMS) messaging to communicate between its fulfillment center and the application after an order has been placed.The company wants to migrate its messaging application to AWS.The company also wants to minimize the effort used to rewrite the messaging code.Which AWS service will meet these requirements?Read More →

Which solution meets these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?

2025-10-20
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An education company is running a web application used by college students around the world.The application runs in an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).A system administrator detects a weekly spike in the number of failed login attempts, which overwhelm the application’s authentication service.All the failed login attempts originate from about 500 different IP addresses that change each week.A solutions architect must prevent the failed login attempts from overwhelming the authentication service.Which solution meets these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?Read More →

Which solution will meet these requirements?

2025-10-20
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A company runs an AWS Lambda function in private subnets in a VPC.The subnets have a default route to the internet through an Amazon EC2 NAT instance.The Lambda function processes input data and saves its output as an object to Amazon S3.Intermittently, the Lambda function times out while trying to upload the object because of saturated traffic on the NAT instance’s network.The company wants to access Amazon S3 without traversing the internet.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

How should the company complete the configuration to meet its requirements while providing the lowest latency for the application end-users?

2025-10-20
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A company deployed a three-tier web application in two regions: us-east-1 and eu-west-1.The application must be active in both regions at the same time.The database tier of the application uses a single Amazon RDS Aurora database globally, with a master in us-east-1 and a read replica in eu-west-1.Both regions are connected by a VPN.The company wants to ensure that the application remains available even in the event of a region-level failure of all of the application’s components.It is acceptable for the application to be in read-only mode for up to 1 hour.The company plans to configure two Amazon Route 53 record sets, one for each of the regions.How should the company complete the configuration to meet its requirements while providing the lowest latency for the application end-users? (Choose two.)Read More →

Which solution will meet these requirements?

2025-10-20
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A company wants to use AWS Systems Manager to manage a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances.According to the company’s security requirements, no EC2 instances can have internet access.A solutions architect needs to design network connectivity from the EC2 instances to Systems Manager while fulfilling this security obligation.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →