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A company uses Amazon S3 to store files and images in a variety of storage classes. The company's S3 costs have increased substantially during the past year.A solutions architect needs to review data trends for the past 12 months and identity the appropriate storage class for the objects.Which solution will meet these requirements?

An adventure company has launched a new feature on its mobile app. Users can use the feature to upload their hiking and rafting photos and videos anytime. The photos and videos are stored in Amazon S3 Standard storage in an S3 bucket and are served through Amazon CloudFront.The company needs to optimize the cost of the storage. A solutions architect discovers that most of the uploaded photos and videos are accessed infrequently after 30 days. However, some of the uploaded photos and videos are accessed frequently after 30 days. The solutions architect needs to implement a solution that maintains millisecond retrieval availability of the photos and videos at the lowest possible cost.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company recently acquired several other companies. Each company has a separate AWS account with a different billing and reporting method. The acquiring company has consolidated all the accounts into one organization in AWS Organizations. However, the acquiring company has found it difficult to generate a cost report that contains meaningful groups for all the teams.The acquiring company’s finance team needs a solution to report on costs for all the companies through a self-managed application.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company recently completed the migration from an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud by using a replatforming strategy. One of the migrated servers is running a legacy Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service that a critical application relies upon. The application sends outbound email messages to the company’s customers. The legacy SMTP server does not support TLS encryption and uses TCP port 25. The application can use SMTP only.The company decides to use Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) and to decommission the legacy SMTP server. The company has created and validated the SES domain. The company has lifted the SES limits.What should the company do to modify the application to send email messages from Amazon SES?

A company has a web application that uses Amazon API Gateway. AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB. A recent marketing campaign has increased demand. Monitoring software reports that many requests have significantly longer response times than before the marketing campaign.A solutions architect enabled Amazon CloudWatch Logs for API Gateway and noticed that errors are occurring on 20% of the requests. In CloudWatch, the Lambda function Throttles metric represents 1% of the requests and the Errors metric represents 10% of the requests. Application logs indicate that, when errors occur, there is a call to DynamoDB.What change should the solutions architect make to improve the current response times as the web application becomes more popular?

A company that develops consumer electronics with offices in Europe and Asia has 60 TB of software images stored on premises in Europe. The company wants to transfer the images to an Amazon S3 bucket in the ap-northeast-1 Region. New software images are created daily and must be encrypted in transit. The company needs a solution that does not require custom development to automatically transfer all existing and new software images to Amazon S3.What is the next step in the transfer process?

A company provides auction services for artwork and has users across North America and Europe. The company hosts its application in Amazon EC2 instances in the us-east-1 Region. Artists upload photos of their work as large-size. high-resolution image files from their mobile phones to a centralized Amazon S3 bucket created in the us-east-1 Region. The users in Europe are reporting slow performance for their image uploads.How can a solutions architect improve the performance of the image upload process?

An application is using an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance in the us-east-1 Region. After a failover test, the application lost the connections to the database and could not re-establish the connections. After a restart of the application, the application re-established the connections.A solutions architect must implement a solution so that the application can re-establish connections to the database without requiring a restart.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A video streaming company recently launched a mobile app for video sharing. The app uploads various files to an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region. The files range in size from 1 GB to 10 GB.Users who access the app from Australia have experienced uploads that take long periods of time. Sometimes the files fail to completely upload for these users. A solutions architect must improve the app’s performance for these uploads.Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.) E. Modify the app to add random prefixes to the files before uploading.

A company is expanding. The company plans to separate its resources into hundreds of different AWS accounts in multiple AWS Regions. A solutions architect must recommend a solution that denies access to any operations outside of specifically designated Regions.Which solution will meet these requirements?

An ecommerce company runs an application on AWS. The application has an Amazon API Gateway API that invokes an AWS Lambda function. The data is stored in an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance.During the company’s most recent flash sale, a sudden increase in API calls negatively affected the application's performance. A solutions architect reviewed the Amazon CloudWatch metrics during that time and noticed a significant increase in Lambda invocations and database connections. The CPU utilization also was high on the DB instance.What should the solutions architect recommend to optimize the application's performance?

A company runs a Python script on an Amazon EC2 instance to process data. The script runs every 10 minutes. The script ingests files from an Amazon S3 bucket and processes the files. On average, the script takes approximately 5 minutes to process each file The script will not reprocess a file that the script has already processed.The company reviewed Amazon CloudWatch metrics and noticed that the EC2 instance is idle for approximately 40% of the time because of the file processing speed. The company wants to make the workload highly available and scalable. The company also wants to reduce long-term management overhead.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A company has applications in an AWS account that is named Source. The account is in an organization in AWS Organizations. One of the applications uses AWS Lambda functions and stores inventory data in an Amazon Aurora database. The application deploys the Lambda functions by using a deployment package. The company has configured automated backups for Aurora.The company wants to migrate the Lambda functions and the Aurora database to a new AWS account that is named Target. The application processes critical data, so the company must minimize downtime.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company is building an application on AWS. The application sends logs to an Amazon OpenSearch Service cluster for analysis. All data must be stored within a VPC.Some of the company’s developers work from home. Other developers work from three different company office locations. The developers need to access OpenSearch Service to analyze and visualize logs directly from their local development machines.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company that uses AWS Organizations allows developers to experiment on AWS. As part of the landing zone that the company has deployed, developers use their company email address to request an account. The company wants to ensure that developers are not launching costly services or running services unnecessarily. The company must give developers a fixed monthly budget to limit their AWS costs.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose three.) E. Create an AWS Budgets alert action to terminate services when the budgeted amount is reached. Configure the action to terminate all services. F. Create an AWS Budgets alert action to send an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notification when the budgeted amount is reached. Invoke an AWS Lambda function to terminate all services.

A startup company hosts a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances in private subnets using the latest Amazon Linux 2 AMI. The company’s engineers rely heavily on SSH access to the instances for troubleshooting.The company’s existing architecture includes the following:• A VPC with private and public subnets, and a NAT gateway.• Site-to-Site VPN for connectivity with the on-premises environment.• EC2 security groups with direct SSH access from the on-premises environment.The company needs to increase security controls around SSH access and provide auditing of commands run by the engineers.Which strategy should a solutions architect use?

A company has an organization in AWS Organizations. The company is using AWS Control Tower to deploy a landing zone for the organization. The company wants to implement governance and policy enforcement. The company must implement a policy that will detect Amazon RDS DB instances that are not encrypted at rest in the company’s production OU.Which solution will meet this requirement?

A company hosts a data-processing application on Amazon EC2 instances. The application polls an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system for newly uploaded files. When a new file is detected, the application extracts data from the file and runs logic to select a Docker container image to process the file. The application starts the appropriate container image and passes the file location as a parameter.The data processing that the container performs can take up to 2 hours. When the processing is complete, the code that runs inside the container writes the file back to Amazon EFS and exits.The company needs to refactor the application to eliminate the EC2 instances that are running the containers.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company is migrating its blog platform to AWS. The company's on-premises servers connect to AWS through an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection. The blog content is updated several times a day by multiple authors and is served from a file share on a network-attached storage (NAS) server.The company needs to migrate the blog platform without delaying the content updates. The company has deployed Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability Zones to run the blog platform behind an Application Load Balancer. The company also needs to move 200 TB of archival data from its on-premises servers to Amazon S3 as soon as possible.Which combination of stops will meet these requirements? (Choose two.) E. Order an AWS Snowcons SSD device. Copy the static data artifacts to the device. Ship the device to AWS.

A company is using Amazon OpenSearch Service to analyze data. The company loads data into an OpenSearch Service cluster with 10 data nodes from an Amazon S3 bucket that uses S3 Standard storage. The data resides in the cluster for 1 month for read-only analysis. After 1 month, the company deletes the index that contains the data from the cluster. For compliance purposes, the company must retain a copy of all input data.The company is concerned about ongoing costs and asks a solutions architect to recommend a new solution.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

A solutions architect needs to advise a company on how to migrate its on-premises data processing application to the AWS Cloud. Currently, users upload input files through a web portal. The web server then stores the uploaded files on NAS and messages the processing server over a message queue. Each media file can take up to 1 hour to process. The company has determined that the number of media files awaiting processing is significantly higher during business hours, with the number of files rapidly declining after business hours.What is the MOST cost-effective migration recommendation?

A company recently deployed an application on AWS. The application uses Amazon DynamoDB. The company measured the application load and configured the RCUs and WCUs on the DynamoDB table to match the expected peak load. The peak load occurs once a week for a 4-hour period and is double the average load. The application load is close to the average load for the rest of the week. The access pattern includes many more writes to the table than reads of the table.A solutions architect needs to implement a solution to minimize the cost of the table.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company is hosting an image-processing service on AWS in a VPC. The VPC extends across two Availability Zones. Each Availability Zone contains one public subnet and one private subnet.The service runs on Amazon EC2 instances in the private subnets. An Application Load Balancer in the public subnets is in front of the service. The service needs to communicate with the internet and does so through two NAT gateways. The service uses Amazon S3 for image storage. The EC2 instances retrieve approximately 1 ТВ of data from an S3 bucket each day.The company has promoted the service as highly secure. A solutions architect must reduce cloud expenditures as much as possible without compromising the service’s security posture or increasing the time spent on ongoing operations.Which solution will meet these requirements?

A company wants to migrate its workloads from on premises to AWS. The workloads run on Linux and Windows. The company has a large on-premises infrastructure that consists of physical machines and VMs that host numerous applications.The company must capture details about the system configuration, system performance, running processes, and network connections of its on-premises workloads. The company also must divide the on-premises applications into groups for AWS migrations. The company needs recommendations for Amazon EC2 instance types so that the company can run its workloads on AWS in the most cost-effective manner.Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose three.) E. Generate recommended instance types and associated costs by using AWS Migration Hub. F. Import data about server sizes into AWS Trusted Advisor. Follow the recommendations for cost optimization.

A company is using AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. For security purposes, the company requires the creation of an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic that enables integration with a third-party alerting system in all the Organizations member accounts.A solutions architect used an AWS CloudFormation template to create the SNS topic and stack sets to automate the deployment of CloudFormation stacks. Trusted access has been enabled in Organizations.What should the solutions architect do to deploy the CloudFormation StackSets in all AWS accounts?

A company’s solutions architect is reviewing a web application that runs on AWS. The application references static assets in an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region. The company needs resiliency across multiple AWS Regions. The company already has created an S3 bucket in a second Region.Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A company has created an OU in AWS Organizations for each of its engineering teams. Each OU owns multiple AWS accounts. The organization has hundreds of AWS accounts.A solutions architect must design a solution so that each OU can view a breakdown of usage costs across its AWS accounts.Which solution meets these requirements?

A company has 50 AWS accounts that are members of an organization in AWS Organizations. Each account contains multiple VPCs. The company wants to use AWS Transit Gateway to establish connectivity between the VPCs in each member account. Each time a new member account is created, the company wants to automate the process of creating a new VPC and a transit gateway attachment.Which combination of steps will meet these requirements? (Choose two.) E. From the management account, share the transit gateway with member accounts by using AWS Service Catalog.

A company that has multiple AWS accounts is using AWS Organizations. The company’s AWS accounts host VPCs, Amazon EC2 instances, and containers.The company’s compliance team has deployed a security tool in each VPC where the company has deployments. The security tools run on EC2 instances and send information to the AWS account that is dedicated for the compliance team. The company has tagged all the compliance-related resources with a key of “costCenter” and a value or “compliance”.The company wants to identify the cost of the security tools that are running on the EC2 instances so that the company can charge the compliance team’s AWS account. The cost calculation must be as accurate as possible.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

A company is managing many AWS accounts by using an organization in AWS Organizations. Different business units in the company run applications on Amazon EC2 instances. All the EC2 instances must have a BusinessUnit tag so that the company can track the cost for each business unit.A recent audit revealed that some instances were missing this tag. The company manually added the missing tag to the instances.What should a solutions architect do to enforce the tagging requirement in the future?