AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate SOA-C02 — Topic 1 Question 257

Question

A company's SysOps administrator maintains a highly available environment. The environment includes Amazon EC2 instances and an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ database. The EC2 instances are in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer. Recently, the company conducted a failover test. The SysOps administrator needs to decrease the failover time of the RDS database by at least 10%. Which solution will meet this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: D. The correct answer is D. Option D: Create an RDS proxy. Point the application to 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. By spanning multiple Availability Zones / adding redundancy, this option provides the high availability and resilience required.

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate SOA-C02 — Question 257