Tip 2 Cloud

A company hosts its core network services, including directory services and DNS, in its on-premises data center.The data center is connected to the AWS Cloud using AWS Direct Connect (DX).Additional AWS accounts are planned that will require quick, cost-effective, and consistent access to these network services.What should a solutions architect implement to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →

A company is creating a prototype of an ecommerce website on AWS.The website consists of an Application Load Balancer, an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances for web servers, and an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance that runs with the Single-AZ configuration.The website is slow to respond during searches of the product catalog.The product catalog is a group of tables in the MySQL database that the company does not update frequently.A solutions architect has determined that the CPU utilization on the DB instance is high when product catalog searches occur.What should the solutions architect recommend to improve the performance of the website during searches of the product catalog?Read More →

A company stores a large volume of image files in an Amazon S3 bucket.The images need to be readily available for the first 180 days.The images are infrequently accessed for the next 180 days.After 360 days, the images need to be archived but must be available instantly upon request.After 5 years, only auditors can access the images.The auditors must be able to retrieve the images within 12 hours.The images cannot be lost during this process.A developer will use S3 Standard storage for the first 180 days.The developer needs to configure an S3 Lifecycle rule.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is building a microservices-based application that will be deployed on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).The microservices will interact with each other.The company wants to ensure that the application is observable to identify performance issues in the future.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

Use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) with Amazon EC2 worker nodes.A company has deployed an application in an AWS account.The application consists of microservices that run on AWS Lambda and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).A separate team supports each microservice.The company has multiple AWS accounts and wants to give each team its own account for its microservices.A solutions architect needs to design a solution that will provide service-to-service communication over HTTPS (port 443).The solution also must provide a service registry for service discovery.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?Read More →