AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 663

A company is moving its on-premises database to the AWS Cloud.

Which AWS service will support this use case?

Answer options

• A. Amazon RDS
• B. Amazon ElastiCache
• C. Amazon DynamoDB
• D. Amazon Redshift

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Amazon RDS is a managed service designed to host relational databases in the cloud, making it the ideal choice for migrating on-premises relational databases. Amazon ElastiCache is used for in-memory caching, Amazon DynamoDB is a non-relational (NoSQL) database, and Amazon Redshift is a data warehouse service used for analytical workloads.