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A company has an application that ingests incoming messages.These messages are then quickly consumed by dozens of other applications and microservices.The number of messages varies drastically and sometimes spikes as high as 100,000 each second.The company wants to decouple the solution and increase scalability.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company has an ecommerce application that stores data in an on-premises SQL database.The company has decided to migrate this database to AWS.However, as part of the migration, the company wants to find a way to attain sub-millisecond responses to common read requests.A solutions architect knows that the increase in speed is paramount and that a small percentage of stale data returned in the database reads is acceptable.What should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

Management has decided to deploy all AWS VPCs with IPv6 enabled.After some time, a solutions architect tries to launch a new instance and receives an error stating that there is not enough IP address space available in the subnet.What should the solutions architect do to fix this?Read More →

A company is planning to migrate a commercial off-the-shelf application from its on-premises data center to AWS.The software has a software licensing model using sockets and cores with predictable capacity and uptime requirements.The company wants to use its existing licenses, which were purchased earlier this year.Which Amazon EC2 pricing option is the MOST cost-effective?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a multi-Region disaster recovery solution for an application that will provide public API access.The application will use AmazonEC2 instances with a userdata script to load application code and an Amazon RDS for MySQL database.The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is 3 hours and theRecovery Point Objective (RPO) is 24 hours.Which architecture would meet these requirements at the LOWEST cost?Read More →

A company has copied 1 PB of data from a colocation facility to an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region using an AWS Direct Connect link.The company now wants to copy the data to another S3 bucket in the us-west-2 Region.The colocation facility does not allow the use of AWS Snowball.What should a solutions architect recommend to accomplish this?Read More →

A company is building a website that relies on reading and writing to an Amazon DynamoDB database.The traffic associated with the website predictably peaks during business hours on weekdays and declines overnight and during weekends.A solutions architect needs to design a cost-effective solution that can handle the load.What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is creating an application that will handle batch processing of large amounts of data.The input data will be held in Amazon S3 and the output data will be stored in a different S3 bucket.For processing, the application will transfer the data over the network between multiple Amazon EC2 instances.What should the solutions architect do to reduce the overall data transfer costs?Read More →

A company has a web application with sporadic usage patterns.There is heavy usage at the beginning of each month, moderate usage at the start of each week, and unpredictable usage during the week.The application consists of a web server and a MySQL database server running inside the data center.The company would like to move the application to the AWS Cloud, and needs to select a cost-effective database platform that will not require database modifications.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is migrating a NoSQL database cluster to Amazon EC2.The database automatically replicates data to maintain at least three copies of the data.I/O throughput of the servers is the highest priority.Which instance type should a solutions architect recommend for the migration?Read More →