AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Topic 1 Question 152

Question

A company uses a three-tier web application to provide training to new employees. The application is accessed for only 12 hours every day. The company is using an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance to store information and wants to minimize costs. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: D. The correct answer is D. Option D: Create AWS Lambda functions to start and stop the DB instance. Create Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) scheduled rules to invoke the Lambda functions. Configure the Lambda functions as event targets for t... AWS Lambda runs code without provisioning servers and scales automatically, which minimizes operational overhead. Amazon EventBridge routes events between services with rules, enabling event-driven, decoupled architectures. Amazon CloudWatch collects metrics, logs and alarms to monitor and react to operational health. This option delivers the requirement at the lowest cost.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Question 152