AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional — Question 281

A company is planning on hosting its ecommerce platform on AWS using a multi-tier web application designed for a NoSQL database. The company plans to use the us-west-2 Region as its primary Region. The company wants to ensure that copies of the application and data are available in second Region, us-west-1, for disaster recovery. The company wants to keep the time to fail over as low as possible. Failing back to the primary Region should be possible without administrative interaction after the primary service is restored.
Which design should the solutions architect use?

Answer options

• A. Use AWS CloudFormation StackSets to create the stacks in both Regions with Auto Scaling groups for the web and application tiers. Asynchronously replicate static content between Regions using Amazon S3 cross-Region replication. Use an Amazon Route 53 DNS failover routing policy to direct users to the secondary site in us-west-1 in the event of an outage. Use Amazon DynamoDB global tables for the database tier.
• B. Use AWS CloudFormation StackSets to create the stacks in both Regions with Auto Scaling groups for the web and application tiers. Asynchronously replicate static content between Regions using Amazon S3 cross-Region replication. Use an Amazon Route 53 DNS failover routing policy to direct users to the secondary site in us-west-1 in the event of an outage Deploy an Amazon Aurora global database for the database tier.
• C. Use AWS Service Catalog to deploy the web and application servers in both Regions Asynchronously replicate static content between the two Regions using Amazon S3 cross-Region replication. Use Amazon Route 53 health checks to identify a primary Region failure and update the public DNS entry listing to the secondary Region in the event of an outage. Use Amazon RDS for MySQL with cross-Region replication for the database tier.
• D. Use AWS CloudFormation StackSets to create the stacks in both Regions using Auto Scaling groups for the web and application tiers. Asynchronously replicate static content between Regions using Amazon S3 cross-Region replication. Use Amazon CloudFront with static files in Amazon S3, and multi-Region origins for the front-end web tier. Use Amazon DynamoDB tables in each Region with scheduled backups to Amazon S3.

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Option A is correct because Amazon DynamoDB global tables provide a fully managed, multi-Region, multi-active NoSQL database that enables seamless, low-latency failover and automatic failback without administrative intervention. Options B and C are incorrect because they use relational databases (Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS for MySQL) instead of the required NoSQL database. Option D is incorrect because scheduled backups to Amazon S3 do not support low failover times or automatic failback, requiring manual restoration steps during a disaster recovery event.