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SAA-C03 · Question #534

A company has an API that receives real-time data from a fleet of monitoring devices. The API stores this data in an Amazon RDS DB instance for later analysis. The amount of data that the monitoring d

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Submitted by the_admin· Mar 4, 2026Design Resilient Architectures

Question

A company has an API that receives real-time data from a fleet of monitoring devices. The API stores this data in an Amazon RDS DB instance for later analysis. The amount of data that the monitoring devices send to the API fluctuates. During periods of heavy traffic, the API often returns timeout errors. After an inspection of the logs, the company determines that the database is not capable of processing the volume of write traffic that comes from the API. A solutions architect must minimize the number of connections to the database and must ensure that data is not lost during periods of heavy traffic. Which solution will meet this requirement?

Options

  • AIncrease the size of the DB instance to an instance type that has more available memory.
  • BModify the DB instance to be a Multi-AZ DB instance. Configure the application to write to all
  • CModify the API to write incoming data to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
  • DModify the API to write incoming data to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

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