Solutions Architect Associate (Page 78)

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 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 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 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 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 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 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’s application is having performance issues.The application is stateful and needs to complete in-memory tasks on Amazon EC2 instances.The company used AWS CloudFormation to deploy infrastructure and used the M5 EC2 instance family.As traffic increased, the application performance degraded.Users are reporting delays when the users attempt to access the application.Which solution will resolve these issues in the MOST operationally efficient way?Read More →

A company’s ecommerce website has unpredictable traffic and uses AWS Lambda functions to directly access a private Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance.The company wants to maintain predictable database performance and ensure that the Lambda invocations do not overload the database with too many connections.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

A company is making a prototype of the infrastructure for its new website by manually provisioning the necessary infrastructure.This infrastructure includes anAuto Scaling group, an Application Load Balancer, and an Amazon RDS database.After the configuration has been thoroughly validated, the company wants the capability to immediately deploy the infrastructure for development and production use in two Availability Zones in an automated fashion.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →