Tip 2 Cloud

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 company runs an application in the cloud that consists of a database and a website.Users can post data to the website, have the data processed, and have the data sent back to them in an email.Data is stored in a MySQL database running on an Amazon EC2 instance.The database is running in a VPC with two private subnets.The website is running on Apache Tomcat in a single EC2 instance in a different VPC with one public subnet.There is a single VPC peering connection between the database and website VPC.The website has suffered several outages during the last month due to high traffic.Which actions should a solutions architect take to increase the reliability of the application? (Choose three.)Read More →

A company is running a containerized application in the AWS Cloud.The application is running by using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on a set of Amazon EC2 instances.The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group.The company uses Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) to store its container images.When a new image version is uploaded, the new image version receives a unique tag.The company needs a solution that inspects new image versions for common vulnerabilities and exposures.The solution must automatically delete new image tags that have Critical or High severity findings.The solution also must notify the development team when such a deletion occurs.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to use Amazon S3 to back up its on-premises file storage solution.The company’s on-premises file storage solution supports NFS, and the company wants its new solution to support NFS.The company wants to archive the backup files after 5 days.If the company needs archived files for disaster recovery, the company is willing to wait a few days for the retrieval of those files.Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has multiple AWS accounts as part of an organization created with AWS Organizations.Each account has a VPC in the us-east-2 Region and is used for either production or development workloads.Amazon EC2 instances across production accounts need to communicate with each other, and EC2 instances across development accounts need to communicate with each other, but production and development instances should not be able to communicate with each other.To facilitate connectivity, the company created a common network account.The company used AWS Transit Gateway to create a transit gateway in the us-east-2Region in the network account and shared the transit gateway with the entire organization by using AWS Resource Access Manager.Network administrators then attached VPCs in each account to the transit gateway, after which the EC2 instances were able to communicate across accounts.However, production and development accounts were also able to communicate with one another.Which set of steps should a solutions architect take to ensure production traffic and development traffic are completely isolated?Read More →