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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 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 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 →

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 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 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 is running a critical business application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer.The EC2 instances run in an Auto Scaling group and access an Amazon RDS DB instance.The design did not pass an operational review because the EC2 instances and the DB instance are all located in a single Availability Zone.A solutions architect must update the design to use a second Availability Zone.Which solution will make the application highly available?Read More →

A company has a serverless website with millions of objects in an Amazon S3 bucket.The company uses the S3 bucket as the origin for an Amazon CloudFront distribution.The company did not set encryption on the S3 bucket before the objects were loaded.A solutions architect needs to enable encryption for all existing objects and for all objects that are added to the S3 bucket in the future.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of effort?Read More →

A company hosts a three-tier ecommerce application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances.The instances run in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application LoadBalancer (ALB).All ecommerce data is stored in an Amazon RDS for MariaDB Multi-AZ DB instance.The company wants to optimize customer session management during transactions.The application must store session data durably.Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)Read More →

A company’s reporting system delivers hundreds of .csv files to an Amazon S3 bucket each day.The company must convert these files to Apache Parquet format and must store the files in a transformed data bucket.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort?Read More →