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SAA-C03 · Question #375

A company has an application that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance. The application uses a MySQL database that runs on the same EC2 instance. The company needs a highly available and…

The correct answer is C. Deploy the application to EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application. Amazon Aurora Serverless is a fully managed, MySQL-compatible database that automatically scales based on demand and provides high availability. Combining this with EC2 Auto Scaling and an Application Load Balancer achieves both application and database high availability and

Submitted by olafpl· Mar 4, 2026Design Resilient Architectures

Question

A company has an application that runs on a single Amazon EC2 instance. The application uses a MySQL database that runs on the same EC2 instance. The company needs a highly available and automatically scalable solution to handle increased traffic. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options

  • ADeploy the application to EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application
  • BDeploy the application to EC2 instances that are configured as a target group behind an
  • CDeploy the application to EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application
  • DDeploy the application to EC2 instances that are configured as a target group behind an

How the community answered

(38 responses)
  • A
    13% (5)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    76% (29)
  • D
    8% (3)

Explanation

Amazon Aurora Serverless is a fully managed, MySQL-compatible database that automatically scales based on demand and provides high availability. Combining this with EC2 Auto Scaling and an Application Load Balancer achieves both application and database high availability and

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