AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty — Question 32

A company currently uses Amazon Athena to query its global datasets. The regional data is stored in Amazon S3 in the us-east-1 and us-west-2 Regions. The data is not encrypted. To simplify the query process and manage it centrally, the company wants to use Athena in us-west-2 to query data from Amazon S3 in both
Regions. The solution should be as low-cost as possible.
What should the company do to achieve this goal?

Answer options

• A. Use AWS DMS to migrate the AWS Glue Data Catalog from us-east-1 to us-west-2. Run Athena queries in us-west-2.
• B. Run the AWS Glue crawler in us-west-2 to catalog datasets in all Regions. Once the data is crawled, run Athena queries in us-west-2.
• C. Enable cross-Region replication for the S3 buckets in us-east-1 to replicate data in us-west-2. Once the data is replicated in us-west-2, run the AWS Glue crawler there to update the AWS Glue Data Catalog in us-west-2 and run Athena queries.
• D. Update AWS Glue resource policies to provide us-east-1 AWS Glue Data Catalog access to us-west-2. Once the catalog in us-west-2 has access to the catalog in us-east-1, run Athena queries in us-west-2.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Option B is the correct choice because running the AWS Glue crawler in us-west-2 allows the company to catalog datasets from all Regions without moving or copying data, thus minimizing costs. Options A and C involve unnecessary data migration or replication, which would incur additional costs. Option D depends on resource policies instead of directly cataloging the data, making it less efficient for querying purposes.