Correct Answer: Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS is a fully managed relational database service that supports high availability and automated backups out of the box....
Correct Answer
Amazon RDS
Why This Answer Is Correct
Amazon RDS is a fully managed relational database service that supports high availability and automated backups out of the box.
This question evaluates your knowledge of Amazon RDS — a core concept tested in AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03). Understanding Amazon RDS is essential for designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures. Mastery of this topic will help you answer scenario-based questions confidently on exam day.
A company requires a relational database in AWS that can handle unpredictable traffic spikes while minimizing operational overhead. Which RDS feature or engine should the solutions architect recommend?
A solutions architect is designing a high-availability database for an application. The primary database should automatically fail over to a standby in another Availability Zone with zero data loss. Which feature is required?
An application has a read-heavy workload that is causing performance degradation on the primary RDS MySQL instance. How can the architect scale the read capacity globally for users in different regions?
A company needs to analyze audit logs stored in an RDS SQL Server database. They want to offload this analytical work from the production database. Which approach is most efficient for a SQL Server engine in RDS?
An architect is designing an e-commerce platform using Amazon Aurora. The platform needs to survive the failure of an entire AWS Region with a low Recovery Point Objective (RPO). Which feature should be used?