AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) — Question 578

A company wants to use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) clusters and Amazon RDS DB instances to build and run a payment processing application. The company will run the application in its on-premises data center for compliance purposes.

A solutions architect wants to use AWS Outposts as part of the solution. The solutions architect is working with the company's operational team to build the application.

Which activities are the responsibility of the company's operational team? (Choose three.)

Answer options

• A. Providing resilient power and network connectivity to the Outposts racks
• B. Managing the virtualization hypervisor, storage systems, and the AWS services that run on Outposts
• C. Physical security and access controls of the data center environment
• D. Availability of the Outposts infrastructure including the power supplies, servers, and networking equipment within the Outposts racks
• E. Physical maintenance of Outposts components
• F. Providing extra capacity for Amazon ECS clusters to mitigate server failures and maintenance events

Correct answer: A, C, F

Explanation

Under the AWS Outposts Shared Responsibility Model, AWS manages the physical infrastructure maintenance, virtualization hypervisor, and the availability of the Outposts hardware. The customer is responsible for facilitating the physical hosting environment, which includes securing the data center, providing redundant power and networking to the racks, and managing their application-level capacity, such as ensuring sufficient Amazon ECS cluster resources to withstand node failures.