AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Topic 1 Question 502

Question

A company runs a website that uses a content management system (CMS) on Amazon EC2. The CMS runs on a single EC2 instance and uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance for the data tier. Website images are stored on an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume that is mounted inside the EC2 instance. Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to improve the performance and resilience of the website? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: C, E. The correct answer is C, E. Option C: Move the website images onto an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system that is mounted on every EC2 instance. Option E: Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from the existing EC2 instance. Use the AMI to provision new instances behind an Application Load Balancer as part of an Auto Scaling group. Configure the Auto Scaling group to mai... Auto Scaling adjusts capacity automatically to match demand, improving availability and cost efficiency. Amazon EC2 provides resizable virtual servers when you need full control of the operating system. Amazon EFS is a shared, elastic NFS file system that multiple instances can mount concurrently across AZs. By spanning multiple Availability Zones / adding redundancy, this option provides the high availability and resilience required.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Question 502