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SAA-C03 · Question #672

A company is running an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance for a business-critical workload. RDS encryption for the DB instance is disabled. A recent security audit concluded that all business-

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Submitted by krish.m· Mar 4, 2026Design Secure Architectures

Question

A company is running an Amazon RDS for MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance for a business-critical workload. RDS encryption for the DB instance is disabled. A recent security audit concluded that all business-critical applications must encrypt data at rest. The company has asked its solutions architect to formulate a plan to accomplish this for the DB instance. Which process should the solutions architect recommend?

Options

  • ACreate an encrypted snapshot of the unencrypted DB instance. Copy the encrypted snapshot to
  • BCreate a new RDS for MySQL DB instance with encryption enabled. Restore the unencrypted
  • CCreate a snapshot of the unencrypted DB instance. Create an encrypted copy of the snapshot.
  • DTemporarily shut down the unencrypted DB instance. Enable AWS Key Management Service

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