Solutions Architect Associate (Page 148)

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 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 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 →

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 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 →

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 two AWS accounts in the same AWS Region.One account is a publisher account, and the other account is a subscriber account.Each account has its own Amazon S3 bucket.An application puts media objects into the publisher account’s S3 bucket.The objects are encrypted with server-side encryption with customer-provided encryption keys (SSE-C).The company needs a solution that will automatically copy the objects to the subscriber’s account’s S3 bucket.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company is deploying a new application on Amazon EC2 instances.The application writes data to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes.The company needs to ensure that all data that is written to the EBS volumes is encrypted at rest.Which solution will meet this requirement?Read More →

A company has deployed a serverless application that invokes an AWS Lambda function when new documents are uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket.The application uses the Lambda function to process the documents.After a recent marketing campaign, the company noticed that the application did not process many of the documents.What should a solutions architect do to improve the architecture of this application?Read More →

The DNS provider that hosts a company’s domain name records is experiencing outages that cause service disruption for a website running on AWS.The company needs to migrate to a more resilient managed DNS service and wants the service to run on AWS.What should a solutions architect do to rapidly migrate the DNS hosting service?Read More →