Tip 2 Cloud

A company is running a highly sensitive application on Amazon EC2 backed by an Amazon RDS database.Compliance regulations mandate that all personally identifiable information (PII) be encrypted at rest.Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of changes to the infrastructure?Read More →

A transaction processing company has weekly scripted batch jobs that run on Amazon EC2 instances.The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group.The number of transactions can vary, but the baseline CPU utilization that is noted on each run is at least 60%.The company needs to provision the capacity 30 minutes before the jobs run.Currently, engineers complete this task by manually modifying the Auto Scaling group parameters.The company does not have the resources to analyze the required capacity trends for the Auto Scaling group counts.The company needs an automated way to modify the Auto Scaling group’s desired capacity.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A financial company needs to handle highly sensitive data.The company will store the data in an Amazon S3 bucket.The company needs to ensure that the data is encrypted in transit and at rest.The company must manage the encryption keys outside the AWS Cloud.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application that customers use to upload images to an Amazon S3 bucket.Each night, the company launches an Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet that processes all the images that the company received that day.The processing for each image takes 2 minutes and requires 512 MB of memory.A solutions architect needs to change the application to process the images when the images are uploaded.Which change will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →