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A company has an application that customers use to upload images to an Amazon S3 bucket.Each night, the company launches an Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet that processes all the images that the company received that day.The processing for each image takes 2 minutes and requires 512 MB of memory.A solutions architect needs to change the application to process the images when the images are uploaded.Which change will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company has an on-premises application that uses SFTP to collect financial data from multiple vendors.The company is migrating to the AWS Cloud.The company has created an application that uses Amazon S3 APIs to upload files from vendors.Some vendors run their systems on legacy applications that do not support S3 APIs.The vendors want to continue to use SFTP-based applications to upload data.The company wants to use managed services for the needs of the vendors that use legacy applications.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company is planning to deploy its application on an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless v2 cluster.The application will receive large amounts of traffic.The company wants to optimize the storage performance of the cluster as the load on the application increases.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A financial services company that runs on AWS has designed its security controls to meet industry standards.The industry standards include the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).The company’s third-party auditors need proof that the designed controls have been implemented and are functioning correctly.The company has hundreds of AWS accounts in a single organization in AWS Organizations.The company needs to monitor the current state of the controls across accounts.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is implementing new data retention policies for all databases that run on Amazon RDS DB instances.The company must retain daily backups for a minimum period of 2 years.The backups must be consistent and restorable.Which solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company hosts a three-tier web application that includes a PostgreSQL database.The database stores the metadata from documents.The company searches the metadata for key terms to retrieve documents that the company reviews in a report each month.The documents are stored in Amazon S3.The documents are usually written only once, but they are updated frequently.The reporting process takes a few hours with the use of relational queries.The reporting process must not prevent any document modifications or the addition of new documents.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to speed up the reporting process.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of change to the application code?Read More →

A company uses Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to run its applications in the us-east-1 Region.The company also uses machine learning (ML) models to forecast annual revenue based on near real-time reports.The reports are generated by using the same RDS for PostgreSQL database.The database performance slows during business hours.The company needs to improve database performance.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company hosts its multi-tier, public web application in the AWS Cloud.The web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances, and its database runs on Amazon RDS.The company is anticipating a large increase in sales during an upcoming holiday weekend.A solutions architect needs to build a solution to analyze the performance of the web application with a granularity of no more than 2 minutes.What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement?Read More →

A company runs an application that stores and shares photos.Users upload the photos to an Amazon S3 bucket.Every day, users upload approximately 150 photos.The company wants to design a solution that creates a thumbnail of each new photo and stores the thumbnail in a second S3 bucket.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company hosts an internal serverless application on AWS by using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda.The company’s employees report issues with high latency when they begin using the application each day.The company wants to reduce latency.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →