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SAA-C03 · Question #811

A company has a critical application that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in the us-east-1a Availability Zone. The application uses a 128 GB Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. The company

The correct answer is D. Create a new backup plan in AWS Backup. Configure the backup frequency to be every hour.. AWS Backup can take EBS snapshots on a schedule as frequently as every hour, meeting the 60-minute RPO. Backups are stored in the same region, and in the event of a failover, the snapshots can be quickly restored to an EBS volume in another Availability Zone (us-east-1b) without

Submitted by carlos_mx· Mar 4, 2026Design Resilient Architectures

Question

A company has a critical application that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance in the us-east-1a Availability Zone. The application uses a 128 GB Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. The company needs a disaster recovery (DR) solution that does not refactor the application. The company requires a recovery point objective (RPO) of 60 minutes. Backups must be quickly available in the us-east-1b Availability Zone for failover. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options

  • AConfigure AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to perform an ongoing replication of the
  • BConfigure application logs to be stored in an Amazon CloudWatch Logs log group. Run a daily log
  • CUse AWS DataSync to create a task. Configure the task to copy the entire EBS volume as a
  • DCreate a new backup plan in AWS Backup. Configure the backup frequency to be every hour.

How the community answered

(32 responses)
  • A
    16% (5)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    9% (3)
  • D
    72% (23)

Explanation

AWS Backup can take EBS snapshots on a schedule as frequently as every hour, meeting the 60-minute RPO. Backups are stored in the same region, and in the event of a failover, the snapshots can be quickly restored to an EBS volume in another Availability Zone (us-east-1b) without requiring application refactoring.

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