When migrating a VM-based web frontend, RabbitMQ message broker, and Kubernetes backend to AWS, the key decision revolves around protocol compatibility vs. managed service adoption. This drill explores why Amazon MQ with EKS represents the optimal balance for minimal-refactoring migrations at the Professional level.
Learn why NAT Gateway placement in public subnets across all AZs is the AWS-recommended pattern for private subnet internet access, and understand the hidden cost implications of high availability decisions.
A weather analytics SaaS expands from Europe to North America and faces regional latency issues despite using CloudFront. This drill explores the correct architecture pattern combining S3 Cross-Region Replication with Lambda@Edge origin routing—and why Global Accelerator and S3 Transfer Acceleration are costly distractors.
A containerized healthcare application needs secure certificate management with near real-time encryption/decryption and high availability. This drill examines AWS KMS, Secrets Manager, and storage options to identify the optimal low-overhead solution.
A life sciences company needs to migrate containerized genomics workflows from on-prem to AWS, processing 200GB datasets in hours instead of weeks. This drill analyzes the critical decision between DataSync+Batch orchestration versus legacy transfer methods, focusing on FinOps impact and workflow automation maturity.
A photo processing startup faces duplicate email notifications due to SQS standard queue behavior triggering Lambda multiple times. This drill explores visibility timeout tuning, queue type selection, and deletion timing strategies to achieve exactly-once processing with minimal operational overhead.
Explore how to minimize operational overhead when deploying applications to constantly changing EC2 fleets using CodeDeploy, Auto Scaling Groups, and AMI baking strategies - a critical SAP-C02 competency.
When migrating a transactional database with sensitive data, the best exam decision is a managed database that reduces ops while meeting baseline security via encryption at rest.
This SAP-C02 scenario explores migrating a legacy IoT telemetry platform to AWS. The decision centers on serverless-first architecture (IoT Core + Lambda + DocumentDB) versus container-based approaches, with FinOps impact quantified across data ingestion, storage, and reporting layers.
When traffic spikes on unpredictable days, dynamic scaling is the cost-effective choice because it reacts to real demand instead of guessing schedules or requiring manual ops.