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An image hosting company uploads its large assets to Amazon S3 Standard buckets.The company uses multipart upload in parallel by using S3 APIs and overwrites if the same object is uploaded again.For the first 30 days after upload, the objects will be accessed frequently.The objects will be used less frequently after 30 days, but the access patterns for each object will be inconsistent.The company must optimize its S3 storage costs while maintaining high availability and resiliency of stored assets.Which combination of actions should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company collects data from thousands of remote devices by using a RESTful web services application that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance.The EC2 instance receives the raw data, transforms the raw data, and stores all the data in an Amazon S3 bucket.The number of remote devices will increase into the millions soon.The company needs a highly scalable solution that minimizes operational overhead.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

An online retail company needs to run near-real-time analytics on website traffic to analyze top-selling products across different locations.The product purchase data and the user location details are sent to a third-party application that runs on premises.The application processes the data and moves the data into the company’s analytics engine.The company needs to implement a cloud-based solution to make the data available for near-real-time analytics.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company is running a business-critical web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The EC2 instances are in an AutoScaling group.The application uses an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database that is deployed in a single Availability Zone.The company wants the application to be highly available with minimum downtime and minimum loss of data.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?Read More →

A company hosts a data lake on AWS.The data lake consists of data in Amazon S3 and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.The company needs a reporting solution that provides data visualization and includes all the data sources within the data lake.Only the company’s management team should have full access to all the visualizations.The rest of the company should have only limited access.Which solution will meet these requirements?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 company has an application that scans millions of connected devices for security threats and pushes the scan logs to an Amazon S3 bucket.A total of 70 GB of data is generated each week, and the company needs to store 3 years of data for historical reporting.The company must process, aggregate, and enrich the data from Amazon S3 by performing complex analytical queries and joins in the least amount of time.The aggregated dataset is visualized on an Amazon QuickSight dashboard.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application that is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances in two private subnets.A solutions architect must make the application available on the public internet with the least amount of administrative effort.What should the solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company hosts its application using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and wants to ensure high availability.The company wants to be able to deploy updates to its application even if nodes in one Availability Zone are not accessible.The expected request volume for the application is 100 requests per second, and each container task is able to serve at least 60 requests per second.The company set up Amazon ECS with a rolling update deployment type with the minimum healthy percent parameter set to 50% and the maximum percent set to100%.Which configuration of tasks and Availability Zones meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is designing an application.The application uses an AWS Lambda function to receive information through Amazon API Gateway and to store the information in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database.During the proof-of-concept stage, the company has to increase the Lambda quotas significantly to handle the high volumes of data that the company needs to load into the database.A solutions architect must recommend a new design to improve scalability and minimize the configuration effort.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →