AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Topic 1 Question 431

Question

A company has developed a new video game as a web application. The application is in a three-tier architecture in a VPC with Amazon RDS for MySQL in the database layer. Several players will compete concurrently online. The game’s developers want to display a top-10 scoreboard in near-real time and offer the ability to stop and restore the game while preserving the current scores. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: B. The correct answer is B. Option B: Set up an Amazon ElastiCache for Redis cluster to compute and cache the scores for the web application to display. Amazon ElastiCache provides in-memory caching (Redis/Memcached) to reduce latency and offload the database. This option meets the real-time / low-latency performance requirement.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Question 431