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DBS-C01 · Question #218

A company has a 4 ТВ on-premises Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) database. The company wants to migrate the database to AWS and reduce licensing costs. The company's application team wants to…

The correct answer is A. Use Amazon DynamoDB and leverage the Time to Live (TTL) feature to automatically expire the. Amazon DynamoDB Time to Live (TTL) allows you to define a per-item timestamp to determine when an item is no longer needed. Shortly after the date and time of the specified timestamp, DynamoDB deletes the item from your table without consuming any write throughput.

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

Question

A company has a 4 ТВ on-premises Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) database. The company wants to migrate the database to AWS and reduce licensing costs. The company’s application team wants to store JSON payloads that expire after 28 hours. The company has development capacity if code changes are required. Which solution meets these requirements?

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Options

  • AUse Amazon DynamoDB and leverage the Time to Live (TTL) feature to automatically expire the
  • BUse Amazon RDS for Oracle with Multi-AZ. Create an AWS Lambda function to purge the expired
  • CUse Amazon DocumentDB with a read replica in a different Availability Zone. Use DocumentDB
  • DUse Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with Multi-AZ and leverage the Time to Live (TTL) feature to

How the community answered

(33 responses)
  • A
    64% (21)
  • B
    21% (7)
  • C
    9% (3)
  • D
    6% (2)

Explanation

Amazon DynamoDB Time to Live (TTL) allows you to define a per-item timestamp to determine when an item is no longer needed. Shortly after the date and time of the specified timestamp, DynamoDB deletes the item from your table without consuming any write throughput.

Topics

#Database selection#Migration strategy#JSON data#Data expiration#DynamoDB TTL

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