AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Question 476

A company has a MariaDB database on premises. The company wants to move the data to the AWS Cloud.

Which AWS service will host this database with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

Answer options

• A. Amazon RDS
• B. Amazon Neptune
• C. Amazon S3
• D. Amazon DynamoDB

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Amazon RDS supports MariaDB natively and automates time-consuming database administration tasks like backups, software patching, and hardware provisioning, which minimizes operational overhead. Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Neptune are non-relational databases (NoSQL and graph, respectively) and are not compatible with a MariaDB deployment. Amazon S3 is an object storage service and cannot host a running relational database.