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DBS-C01 · Question #171

A company that analyzes the stock market has two offices: one in the us-east-1 Region and another in the eu-west-2 Region. The company wants to implement an AWS database solution that can provide…

The correct answer is C. Use an Amazon Aurora global database. Deploy the primary DB cluster in us-east-1. Deploy the. Amazon Aurora global databases span multiple AWS Regions, enabling low latency global reads and providing fast recovery from the rare outage that might affect an entire AWS Region. An Aurora global database has a primary DB cluster in one Region, and up to five secondary DB…

Submitted by mateo_ar· Mar 6, 2026Workload-Specific Database Design

Question

A company that analyzes the stock market has two offices: one in the us-east-1 Region and another in the eu-west-2 Region. The company wants to implement an AWS database solution that can provide fast and accurate updates. The office in eu-west-2 has dashboards with complex analytical queries to display the data. The company will use these dashboards to make buying decisions, so the dashboards must have access to the application data in less than 1 second. Which solution meets these requirements and provides the MOST up-to-date dashboard?

Options

  • ADeploy an Amazon RDS DB instance in us-east-1 with a read replica instance in eu-west-2.
  • BUse an Amazon DynamoDB global table in us-east-1 with replication into eu-west-2. Use multi-
  • CUse an Amazon Aurora global database. Deploy the primary DB cluster in us-east-1. Deploy the
  • DDeploy an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance in us-east-1 with a read replica instance in eu-

How the community answered

(26 responses)
  • A
    19% (5)
  • B
    12% (3)
  • C
    65% (17)
  • D
    4% (1)

Explanation

Amazon Aurora global databases span multiple AWS Regions, enabling low latency global reads and providing fast recovery from the rare outage that might affect an entire AWS Region. An Aurora global database has a primary DB cluster in one Region, and up to five secondary DB clusters in different Regions. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/aurora-global-database.html

Topics

#Aurora Global Database#multi-region#disaster recovery#low latency

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