AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) — Question 481

A company is migrating an on-premises application to AWS. The company wants to use Amazon Redshift as a solution.

Which use cases are suitable for Amazon Redshift in this scenario? (Choose three.)

Answer options

• A. Supporting data APIs to access data with traditional, containerized, and event-driven applications
• B. Supporting client-side and server-side encryption
• C. Building analytics workloads during specified hours and when the application is not active
• D. Caching data to reduce the pressure on the backend database
• E. Scaling globally to support petabytes of data and tens of millions of requests per minute
• F. Creating a secondary replica of the cluster by using the AWS Management Console

Correct answer: B, C, E

Explanation

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed data warehouse that supports both client-side and server-side encryption to protect sensitive data at rest and in transit. It is ideal for running complex analytical queries during specific off-peak hours to manage costs and resources efficiently, and it can scale globally to manage petabyte-scale data Warehousing operations with high throughput. Caching and real-time transactional replication are better suited for services like Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon RDS, rather than Redshift.