AWS Certified Database – Specialty — Question 276

A social media company recently launched a new feature that gives users the ability to share live feeds of their daily activities with their followers. The company has an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance that stores data about follower engagement.

After the new feature launched, the company noticed high CPU utilization and high database latency during reads and writes. The company wants to implement a solution that will identify the source of the high CPU utilization.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative oversight?

Answer options

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS automatically detects, analyzes, and provides recommendations for database performance issues like high CPU utilization using machine learning, requiring the least administrative oversight. AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch Logs collect logs but require manual configuration, queries, and analysis to identify root causes. Amazon Aurora Database Activity Streams is a security compliance feature and does not apply to Amazon RDS for MySQL.