CLF-C02 Question 184
Single answerA company is planning to migrate its on-premises databases to AWS. They require a fully managed relational database service that supports automatic backups, scaling, and high availability. Which AWS service should they use?
- A
Amazon RDS
- B
Amazon DynamoDB
- C
Amazon Redshift
- D
Amazon ElastiCache
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The company needs a fully managed relational database service to handle their workload. Amazon RDS is designed specifically for this use case, offering management for relational databases with features like backups, scaling, and high availability. Other services like DynamoDB, Redshift, and ElastiCache serve different purposes and do not meet the requirements for relational database management.
- A. Correct.
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) is a fully managed relational database service that supports features like automatic backups, scaling, and high availability. It is specifically designed for relational databases.
- B. Incorrect.
Amazon DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service designed for key-value and document data models, not for relational database use cases.
- C. Incorrect.
Amazon Redshift is a data warehousing service optimized for analytics and querying large datasets, not suitable for transactional relational database workloads.
- D. Incorrect.
Amazon ElastiCache is a caching service designed to improve application performance by caching frequently accessed data. It is not a relational database service.