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Question 54
A company’s infrastructure consists of Amazon EC2 instances and an Amazon RDS DB instance in a single AWS Region. The company wants to back up its data in a separate Region. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
- A Use AWS Backup to copy EC2 backups and RDS backups to the separate Region.
- B Create Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots. Copy the EBS snapshots to the separate Region. Create RDS snapshots. Export the RDS snapshots to Amazon S3. Configure S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) to the separate Region.
- C Use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (Amazon DLM) to copy EC2 backups and RDS backups to the separate Region.
- D Create Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) of the EC2 instances. Copy the AMIs to the separate Region. Create a read replica for the RDS DB instance in the separate Region.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct solution to back up a company's data in a separate AWS Region with the least operational overhead is to use AWS Backup to copy EC2 backups and RDS backups to the separate Region. This approach simplifies the process by centralizing backup management and automating the copying of backups across regions.Discussion
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