A company has deployed applications to thousands of Amazon EC2 instances in an AWS account. A security audit discovers that several unencrypted Amazon EBS volumes are attached to the EC2 instances. The company's security policy requires the EBS volumes to be encrypted.
The company needs to implement an automated solution to encrypt the EBS volumes. The solution also must prevent development teams from creating unencrypted EBS volumes.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses a Grafana data visualization solution that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance to monitor the health of the company's AWS workloads. The company has invested time and effort to create dashboards that the company wants to preserve. The dashboards need to be highly available and cannot be down for longer than 10 minutes. The company needs to minimize ongoing maintenance.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
An external audit of a company's serverless application reveals IAM policies that grant too many permissions. These policies are attached to the company's AWS Lambda execution roles. Hundreds of the company's Lambda functions have broad access permissions, such as full access to Amazon S3 buckets and Amazon DynamoDB tables. The company wants each function to have only the minimum permissions that the function needs to complete its task.
A solutions architect must determine which permissions each Lambda function needs.
What should the solutions architect do to meet this requirement with the LEAST amount of effort?
A company has a web application that securely uploads pictures and videos to an Amazon S3 bucket. The company requires that only authenticated users are allowed to post content. The application generates a presigned URL that is used to upload objects through a browser interface. Most users are reporting slow upload times for objects larger than 100 MB.
What can a Solutions Architect do to improve the performance of these uploads while ensuring only authenticated users are allowed to post content?
Question:
A company hosts an application that uses several Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). During the initial startup of the EC2 instances, the EC2 instances run user data scripts to download critical content for the application from an Amazon S3 bucket.
The EC2 instances are launching correctly. However, after a period of time, the EC2 instances are terminated with the following error message:
“An instance was taken out of service in response to an ELB system health check failure.â€
The only recent change to the deployment is that the company added a large amount of critical content to the S3 bucket.
What should a solutions architect do so that the production environment can deploy successfully?
A retail company is hosting an ecommerce website on AWS across multiple AWS Regions. The company wants the website to be operational at all times for online purchases. The website stores data in an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance.
Which solution will provide the HIGHEST availability for the database?
A company wants to migrate an application to Amazon EC2 from VMware Infrastructure that runs in an on-premises data center. A solutions architect must preserve the software and configuration settings during the migration.
What should the solutions architect do to meet these requirements?
A company owns a chain of travel agencies and is running an application in the AWS Cloud. Company employees use the application to search for information about travel destinations. Destination content is updated four times each year.
Two fixed Amazon EC2 instances serve the application. The company uses an Amazon Route 53 public hosted zone with a multivalue record of travel.example.com that returns the Elastic IP addresses for the EC2 instances. The application uses Amazon DynamoDB as its primary data store. The company uses a self-hosted Redis instance as a caching solution.
During content updates, the load on the EC2 instances and the caching solution increases drastically. This increased load has led to downtime on several occasions. A solutions architect must update the application so that the application is highly available and can handle the load that is generated by the content updates.
Which solution will meet these requirements?