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Question 21

A company wants to migrate its MySQL database from on premises to AWS. The company recently experienced a database outage that significantly impacted the business. To ensure this does not happen again, the company wants a reliable database solution on AWS that minimizes data loss and stores every transaction on at least two nodes. Which solution meets these requirements?
  • A Create an Amazon EC2 instance with a MySQL engine installed that triggers an AWS Lambda function to synchronously replicate the data to an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance.
  • B Create an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance with Multi-AZ functionality enabled to synchronously replicate the data.
  • C Create an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance and then create a read replica in a separate AWS Region that synchronously replicates the data.
  • D Create an Amazon RDS DB instance with synchronous replication to three nodes in three Availability Zones.
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Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct solution for migrating the company's MySQL database to AWS while ensuring reliability and minimizing data loss is to create an Amazon RDS MySQL DB instance with Multi-AZ functionality enabled to synchronously replicate the data. This setup ensures that every transaction is stored on at least two nodes, providing high availability and fault tolerance.

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