Tip 2 Cloud

A company has deployed its application on Amazon EC2 instances with an Amazon RDS database.The company used the principle of least privilege to configure the database access credentials.The company’s security team wants to protect the application and the database from SQL injection and other web-based attacks.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company regularly uploads GB-sized files to Amazon S3.After the company uploads the files, the company uses a fleet of Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to transcode the file format.The company needs to scale throughput when the company uploads data from the on-premises data center to Amazon S3 and when the company downloads data from Amazon S3 to the EC2 instances.Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a shared storage solution for a web application that is deployed across multiple Availability Zones.The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Auto Scaling group.The company plans to make frequent changes to the content.The solution must have strong consistency in returning the new content as soon as the changes occur.Which solutions meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company uses on-premises servers to host its applications.The company is running out of storage capacity.The applications use both block storage and NFS storage.The company needs a high-performing solution that supports local caching without re-architecting its existing applications.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A solutions architect creates a VPC that includes two public subnets and two private subnets.A corporate security mandate requires the solutions architect to launch all Amazon EC2 instances in a private subnet.However, when the solutions architect launches an EC2 instance that runs a web server on ports 80 and 443 in a private subnet, no external internet traffic can connect to the server.What should the solutions architect do to resolve this issue?Read More →