Tip 2 Cloud

A company needs to retain its AWS CloudTrail logs for 3 years.The company is enforcing CloudTrail across a set of AWS accounts by using AWS Organizations from the parent account.The CloudTrail target S3 bucket is configured with S3 Versioning enabled.An S3 Lifecycle policy is in place to delete current objects after 3 years.After the fourth year of use of the S3 bucket, the S3 bucket metrics show that the number of objects has continued to rise.However, the number of new CloudTrail logs that are delivered to the S3 bucket has remained consistent.Which solution will delete objects that are older than 3 years in the MOST cost-effective manner?Read More →

A company has an API that receives real-time data from a fleet of monitoring devices.The API stores this data in an Amazon RDS DB instance for later analysis.The amount of data that the monitoring devices send to the API fluctuates.During periods of heavy traffic, the API often returns timeout errors.After an inspection of the logs, the company determines that the database is not capable of processing the volume of write traffic that comes from the API.A solutions architect must minimize the number of connections to the database and must ensure that data is not lost during periods of heavy traffic.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a Windows-based application that must be migrated to AWS.The application requires the use of a shared Windows file system attached to multiple Amazon EC2 Windows instances that are deployed across multiple Availability Zone:What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →