AWS Certified Developer - Associate DVA-C02 — Topic 1 Question 36

Question

A development team maintains a web application by using a single AWS CloudFormation template. The template defines web servers and an Amazon RDS database. The team uses the Cloud Formation template to deploy the Cloud Formation stack to different environments. During a recent application deployment, a developer caused the primary development database to be dropped and recreated. The result of this incident was a loss of data. The team needs to avoid accidental database deletion in the future. Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: A, B. The correct answer is A, B. Option A: Add a CloudFormation Deletion Policy attribute with the Retain value to the database resource. Option B: Update the CloudFormation stack policy to prevent updates to the database. AWS CloudFormation provisions infrastructure as code repeatably.

AWS Certified Developer - Associate DVA-C02 — Question 36