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A company has a 20 TB production Amazon Aurora DB cluster. The company runs a large batch job overnight to load data into the Aurora DB cluster. To ensure the company's development team has the most u

The correct answer is C. Schedule a job to create a clone of the DB cluster at the end of the overnight batch process.. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/Aurora.Managing.Clone.html Creating a clone is faster and more space-efficient than physically copying the data using other techniques, such as restoring a snapshot.

Submitted by asante_acc· Mar 6, 2026Management and Operations

Question

A company has a 20 TB production Amazon Aurora DB cluster. The company runs a large batch job overnight to load data into the Aurora DB cluster. To ensure the company's development team has the most up-to-date data for testing, a copy of the DB cluster must be available in the shortest possible time after the batch job completes. How should this be accomplished?

Options

  • AUse the AWS CLI to schedule a manual snapshot of the DB cluster.
  • BCreate a dump file from the DB cluster.
  • CSchedule a job to create a clone of the DB cluster at the end of the overnight batch process.
  • DSet up a new daily AWS DMS task that will use cloning and change data capture (CDC) on the

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  • B
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  • C
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  • D
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Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/Aurora.Managing.Clone.html Creating a clone is faster and more space-efficient than physically copying the data using other techniques, such as restoring a snapshot.

Topics

#Aurora cloning#development environments#data refresh#testing environments#database copies

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