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A financial services company launched a new application that uses an Amazon RDS for MySQL database.The company uses the application to track stock market trends.The company needs to operate the application for only 2 hours at the end of each week.The company needs to optimize the cost of running the database.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is planning to deploy an Amazon RDS DB instance running Amazon Aurora.The company has a backup retention policy requirement of 90 days.Which solution should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →

A company stores confidential data in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database in the ap-southeast-3 Region.The database is encrypted with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key.The company was recently acquired and must securely share a backup of the database with the acquiring company’s AWS account in ap-southeast-3.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is designing a new web service that will run on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer.However, many of the web service clients can only reach IP addresses whitelisted on their firewalls.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet the clients’ needs?Read More →

A company uses Amazon S3 to store high-resolution pictures in an S3 bucket.To minimize application changes, the company stores the pictures as the latest version of an S3 object.The company needs to retain only the two most recent versions of the pictures.The company wants to reduce costs.The company has identified the S3 bucket as a large expense.Which solution will reduce the S3 costs with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

A company has an ordering application that stores customer information in Amazon RDS for MySQL.During regular business hours, employees run one-time queries for reporting purposes.Timeouts are occurring during order processing because the reporting queries are taking a long time to run.The company needs to eliminate the timeouts without preventing employees from performing queries.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has a service that reads and writes large amounts of data from an Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region.The service is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances within the private subnet of a VPC.The service communicates with Amazon S3 over a NAT gateway in the public subnet.However, the company wants a solution that will reduce the data output costs.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?Read More →

A company is running a global application.The application’s users submit multiple videos that are then merged into a single video file.The application uses a single Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region to receive uploads from users.The same S3 bucket provides the download location of the single video file that is produced.The final video file output has an average size of 250 GB.The company needs to develop a solution that delivers faster uploads and downloads of the video files that are stored in Amazon S2.The company will offer the solution as a subscription to users who want to pay for the increased speed.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is conducting an internal audit.The company wants to ensure that the data in an Amazon S3 bucket that is associated with the company’s AWS Lake Formation data lake does not contain sensitive customer or employee data.The company wants to discover personally identifiable information (PII) or financial information, including passport numbers and credit card numbers.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has media and application files that need to be shared internally.Users currently are authenticated using Active Directory and access files from aMicrosoft Windows platform.The chief executive officer wants to keep the same user permissions, but wants the company to improve the process as the company is reaching its storage capacity limit.What should a solutions architect recommend?Read More →