AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C02) — Question 279

A company wants to migrate its web application to AWS. The legacy web application consists of a web tier, an application tier, and a MySQL database. The re- architected application must consist of technologies that do not require the administration team to manage instances or clusters.
Which combination of services should a solutions architect include in the overall architecture? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Amazon Aurora Serverless
• B. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
• C. Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES)
• D. Amazon RDS for MySQL
• E. AWS Fargate

Correct answer: A, E

Explanation

AWS Fargate provides a serverless compute engine for containers that eliminates the need to provision, configure, or manage servers or clusters for the web and application tiers. Amazon Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, auto-scaling database configuration that automatically scales capacity without requiring database instance management. Other options like Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, Amazon RDS for MySQL, and Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) still require administration teams to manage underlying instances or clusters.