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A company hosts a multi-tier web application that uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster for storage. The application tier is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances. The company's IT security guidelines manda

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Submitted by katya_ua· Mar 4, 2026Design Secure Architectures

Question

A company hosts a multi-tier web application that uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL DB cluster for storage. The application tier is hosted on Amazon EC2 instances. The company's IT security guidelines mandate that the database credentials be encrypted and rotated every 14 days. What should a solutions architect do to meet this requirement with the LEAST operational effort?

Options

  • ACreate a new AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) encryption key. Use AWS Secrets
  • BCreate two parameters in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store: one for the user name as a
  • CStore a file that contains the credentials in an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
  • DStore a file that contains the credentials in an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

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