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A company runs an application that uses Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.The application receives traffic only on weekdays during business hours.The company wants to optimize costs and reduce operational overhead based on this usage.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company wants to migrate two DNS servers to AWS.The servers host a total of approximately 200 zones and receive 1 million requests each day on average.The company wants to maximize availability while minimizing the operational overhead that is related to the management of the two servers.What should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?Read More →

A solutions architect is designing a highly available Amazon ElastiCache for Redis based solution.The solutions architect needs to ensure that failures do not result in performance degradation or loss of data locally and within an AWS Region.The solution needs to provide high availability at the node level and at the Region level.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A global company hosts its web application on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB).The web application has static data and dynamic data.The company stores its static data in an Amazon S3 bucket.The company wants to improve performance and reduce latency for the static data and dynamic data.The company is using its own domain name registered with Amazon Route 53.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?Read More →

An ecommerce application uses a PostgreSQL database that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance.During a monthly sales event, database usage increases and causes database connection issues for the application.The traffic is unpredictable for subsequent monthly sales events, which impacts the sales forecast.The company needs to maintain performance when there is an unpredictable increase in traffic.Which solution resolves this issue in the MOST cost-effective way?Read More →

A gaming company uses Amazon DynamoDB to store user information such as geographic location, player data, and leaderboards.The company needs to configure continuous backups to an Amazon S3 bucket with a minimal amount of coding.The backups must not affect availability of the application and must not affect the read capacity units (RCUs) that are defined for the table.Which solution meets these requirements?Read More →

A company is designing the network for an online multi-player game.The game uses the UDP networking protocol and will be deployed in eight AWS Regions.The network architecture needs to minimize latency and packet loss to give end users a high-quality gaming experience.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company receives structured and semi-structured data from various sources once every day.A solutions architect needs to design a solution that leverages big data processing frameworks.The data should be accessible using SQL queries and business intelligence tools.What should the solutions architect recommend to build the MOST high-performing solution?Read More →

A company collects 10 GB of telemetry data daily from various machines.The company stores the data in an Amazon S3 bucket in a source data account.The company has hired several consulting agencies to use this data for analysis.Each agency needs read access to the data for its analysts.The company must share the data from the source data account by choosing a solution that maximizes security and operational efficiency.Which solution will meet these requirements?Read More →

A company has an application that loads documents into an Amazon S3 bucket and converts the documents into another format.The application stores the converted documents in another S3 bucket and saves the document name and URLs in an Amazon DynamoDB table.The DynamoDB entries are used during subsequent days to access the documents.The company uses a DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) cluster in front of the table.Recently, traffic to the application has increased.Document processing tasks are timing out during the scheduled DAX maintenance window.A solutions architect must ensure that the documents continue to load during the maintenance window.What should the solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?Read More →