AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional SAP-C02 — Topic 1 Question 344

Question

A company is using AWS CodePipeline for the CI/CD of an application to an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. All AWS resources are defined in AWS CloudFormation templates. The application artifacts are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket and deployed to the Auto Scaling group using instance user data scripts. As the application has become more complex, recent resource changes in the CloudFormation templates have caused unplanned downtime. How should a solutions architect improve the CI/CD pipeline to reduce the likelihood that changes in the templates will cause downtime?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: B. The correct answer is B. Option B: Implement automated testing using AWS CodeBuild in a test environment. Use CloudFormation change sets to evaluate changes before deployment. Use AWS CodeDeploy to leverage blue/green deployment patterns to allow evalu... AWS CloudFormation provisions infrastructure as code repeatably. AWS CodeBuild compiles, tests and packages code in a managed build service. AWS CodeDeploy automates application deployments to compute services.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional SAP-C02 — Question 344