AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional — Question 156

A user is trying to send custom metrics to CloudWatch using the PutMetricData APIs. Which of the below mentioned points should the user needs to take care while sending the data to CloudWatch?

Answer options

• A. The size of a request is limited to 8KB for HTTP GET requests and 40KB for HTTP POST requests
• B. The size of a request is limited to 16KB for HTTP GET requests and 80KB for HTTP POST requests
• C. The size of a request is limited to 128KB for HTTP GET requests and 64KB for HTTP POST requests
• D. The size of a request is limited to 40KB for HTTP GET requests and 8KB for HTTP POST requests

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is A, which states that the size of a request is limited to 8KB for HTTP GET requests and 40KB for HTTP POST requests, as per AWS documentation. The other options provide incorrect size limits that do not align with the actual constraints imposed by CloudWatch for metric data submissions.