AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Topic 1 Question 30

Question

A development team runs monthly resource-intensive tests on its general purpose Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance with Performance Insights enabled. The testing lasts for 48 hours once a month and is the only process that uses the database. The team wants to reduce the cost of running the tests without reducing the compute and memory attributes of the DB instance. Which solution meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: C. The correct answer is C. Option C: Create a snapshot when tests are completed. Terminate the DB instance and restore the snapshot when required. This option delivers the requirement at the lowest cost.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Question 30