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A company runs an AWS Lambda function in private subnets in a VPC.The subnets have a default route to the internet through an Amazon EC2 NAT instance.The Lambda function processes input data and saves its output as an object to Amazon S3.Intermittently, the Lambda function times out while trying to upload the object because of saturated traffic on the NAT instance’s network.The company wants to access Amazon S3 without traversing the internet.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company provides an online service for posting video content and transcoding it for use by any mobile platform.The application architecture uses AmazonElastic File System (Amazon EFS) Standard to collect and store the videos so that multiple Amazon EC2 Linux instances can access the video content for processing.As the popularity of the service has grown over time, the storage costs have become too expensive.Which storage solution is MOST cost-effective?Read More →

A financial services company wants to shut down two data centers and migrate more than 100 TB of data to AWS.The data has an intricate directory structure with millions of small files stored in deep hierarchies of subfolders.Most of the data is unstructured, and the company’s file storage consists of SMB-based storage types from multiple vendors.The company does not want to change its applications to access the data after migration.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?Read More →

An administrator of a large company wants to monitor for and prevent any cryptocurrency-related attacks on the company’s AWS accounts.Which AWS service can the administrator use to protect the company against attacks?Read More →

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

A company is running a multi-tier web application on premises.The web application is containerized and runs on a number of Linux hosts connected to aPostgreSQL database that contains user records.The operational overhead of maintaining the infrastructure and capacity planning is limiting the company’s growth.A solutions architect must improve the application’s infrastructure.Which combination of actions should the solutions architect take to accomplish this? (Choose two.)Read More →

To meet security requirements, a company needs to encrypt all of its application data in transit while communicating with an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance.A recent security audit revealed that encryption at rest is enabled using AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), but data in transit is not enabled.What should a solutions architect do to satisfy the security requirements?Read More →

A company wants to move its on-premises network attached storage (NAS) to AWS.The company wants to make the data available to any Linux instances within its VPC and ensure changes are automatically synchronized across all instances accessing the data store.The majority of the data is accessed very rarely, and some files are accessed by multiple users at the same time.Which solution meets these requirements and is MOST cost-effective?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) authorization model for a company’s AWS account.The company has designated five specific employees to have full access to AWS services and resources in the AWS account.The solutions architect has created an IAM user for each of the five designated employees and has created an IAM user group.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A meteorological startup company has a custom web application to sell weather data to its users online.The company uses Amazon DynamoDB to store its data and wants to build a new service that sends an alert to the managers of four internal teams every time a new weather event is recorded.The company does not want this new service to affect the performance of the current application.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?Read More →