AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional SAP-C02 — Topic 1 Question 339

Question

A company is migrating a legacy application from an on-premises data center to AWS. The application consists of a single application server and a Microsoft SQL Server database server. Each server is deployed on a VMware VM that consumes 500 TB of data across multiple attached volumes. The company has established a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection from the closest AWS Region to its on-premises data center. The Direct Connect connection is not currently in use by other services. Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to migrate the application with the LEAST amount of downtime? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: D, E. The correct answer is D, E. Option D: Use an AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) replication job to migrate the application server VM to AWS. Option E: Use an AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) replication instance to migrate the database to an Amazon RDS DB instance. Amazon RDS is a managed relational database that handles patching, backups and failover. AWS Database Migration Service migrates databases with minimal downtime.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional SAP-C02 — Question 339