AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) — Question 407

A rapidly growing global ecommerce company is hosting its web application on AWS. The web application includes static content and dynamic content. The website stores online transaction processing (OLTP) data in an Amazon RDS database The website’s users are experiencing slow page loads.

Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to resolve this issue? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Configure an Amazon Redshift cluster.
• B. Set up an Amazon CloudFront distribution.
• C. Host the dynamic web content in Amazon S3.
• D. Create a read replica for the RDS DB instance.
• E. Configure a Multi-AZ deployment for the RDS DB instance.

Correct answer: B, D

Explanation

Amazon CloudFront improves page load times globally by caching and serving both static and dynamic content from edge locations closer to the users. Creating an Amazon RDS read replica resolves database performance issues by offloading read traffic from the primary OLTP database instance. Other options such as Amazon Redshift are designed for analytical workloads rather than live OLTP performance, Amazon S3 cannot host dynamic application code, and Multi-AZ deployments are intended for high availability rather than read scaling.