AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Question 361

A user needs a relational database but does not have the resources to manage the hardware, resiliency, and replication.

Which AWS service option meets the user's requirements?

Answer options

• A. Run MySQL on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).
• B. Run MySQL on Amazon EC2.
• C. Choose Amazon RDS for MySQL.
• D. Choose Amazon ElastiCache for Redis.

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Amazon RDS is a fully managed service that automates time-consuming database administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, backups, and replication for high availability. While Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS allow you to run MySQL, they require you to manually manage the infrastructure, resiliency, and replication. Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is an in-memory data store, not a relational database service.