AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C02) — Question 221

A company is building a media sharing application and decides to use Amazon S3 for storage. When a media file is uploaded, the company starts a multi-step process to create thumbnails, identify objects in the images, transcode videos into standard formats and resolutions, and extract and store the metadata to an
Amazon DynamoDB table. The metadata is used for searching and navigation.
The amount of traffic is variable. The solution must be able to scale to handle spikes in load without unnecessary expenses.
What should a solutions architect recommend to support this workload?

Answer options

• A. Build the processing into the website or mobile app used to upload the content to Amazon S3. Save the required data to the DynamoDB table when the objects are uploaded.
• B. Trigger AWS Step Functions when an object is stored in the S3 bucket. Have the Step Functions perform the steps needed to process the object and then write the metadata to the DynamoDB table.
• C. Trigger an AWS Lambda function when an object is stored in the S3 bucket. Have the Lambda function start AWS Batch to perform the steps to process the object. Place the object data in the DynamoDB table when complete.
• D. Trigger an AWS Lambda function to store an initial entry in the DynamoDB table when an object is uploaded to Amazon S3. Use a program running on an Amazon EC2 instance in an Auto Scaling group to poll the index for unprocessed items, and use the program to perform the processing.

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Option C is correct as it leverages AWS Lambda to handle the upload event, allowing for serverless scaling with AWS Batch to manage the processing tasks efficiently. The other options either build processing directly into the upload mechanism (A), do not utilize the full capabilities of AWS services for scalability (B), or rely on a polling mechanism which can introduce delays and inefficiencies (D).