AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Topic 1 Question 526

Question

A solutions architect is reviewing the resilience of an application. The solutions architect notices that a database administrator recently failed over the application's Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database writer instance as part of a scaling exercise. The failover resulted in 3 minutes of downtime for the application. Which solution will reduce the downtime for scaling exercises with the LEAST operational overhead?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: D. The correct answer is D. Option D: Set up an Amazon RDS proxy for the database. Update the application to use the proxy endpoint. Amazon RDS Proxy pools and shares database connections to improve scalability and resilience. Amazon RDS is a managed relational database that handles patching, backups and failover.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Question 526