SAP-C02 Question 435
Select 3A company runs a critical production workload on Amazon EC2 instances in a single AWS Region. The company has a compliance requirement to retain backups of its data for seven years. The application generates approximately 50 GB of data daily, and the company wants to implement an efficient, cost-effective backup solution while ensuring disaster recovery capabilities. Which combination of actions should the Solutions Architect recommend?
- A
Use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to create regular EBS snapshots of the EC2 instances and copy snapshots to another Region.
- B
Use AWS Backup to centrally manage and automate backup tasks, and configure cross-Region backup replication.
- C
Store daily backups in Amazon S3 Standard and configure an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition data to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 30 days.
- D
Use AWS Storage Gateway to back up the data to an on-premises tape library for long-term storage.
- E
Deploy an Amazon RDS instance and use automated backups to meet the retention requirement.
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Correct answers: A, B, C
Explanation
The company needs a scalable, cost-effective, and compliant backup solution for EC2 workloads with disaster recovery capabilities. Using Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager or AWS Backup ensures automated and centralized management. Additionally, S3 Lifecycle policies optimize storage costs by transitioning data to S3 Glacier Deep Archive for long-term retention. On-premises tape libraries and unrelated services like RDS do not effectively address the requirements.
- A. Correct.
This is a viable option as it uses EBS snapshots for backup and copies them to another Region for disaster recovery. However, it alone does not fulfill the requirement to centrally manage backups for compliance and lifecycle policies.
- B. Correct.
This is a correct option because AWS Backup provides centralized backup management and automation, and cross-Region replication adds disaster recovery capabilities.
- C. Correct.
This is a correct option for efficiently storing backups. S3 Standard is used for recent backups, and transitioning to S3 Glacier Deep Archive reduces costs for long-term retention.
- D. Incorrect.
This is not a viable option because using on-premises tape libraries with AWS Storage Gateway does not meet the company's requirement for a cloud-native solution.
- E. Incorrect.
This is incorrect because deploying an RDS instance is unrelated to the scenario of backing up EC2 workloads and does not address the backup or disaster recovery requirements.