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SAP-C02 · Question #221

A company hosts a web application on AWS in the us-east-1 Region. The application servers are distributed across three Availability Zones behind an Application Load Balancer. The database is hosted…

The correct answer is B. Migrate the database to an Amazon Aurora global database with the primary in us-east-1 and the. https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/global-database/

Submitted by akirajp· Mar 6, 2026Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions

Question

A company hosts a web application on AWS in the us-east-1 Region. The application servers are distributed across three Availability Zones behind an Application Load Balancer. The database is hosted in MYSQL database on an Amazon EC2 instance. A solutions architect needs to design a cross-Region data recovery solution using AWS services with an RTO of less than 5 minutes and an RPO of less than 1 minute. The solutions architect is deploying application servers in us-west- 2, and has configured Amazon Route 53 health checks and DNS failover to us-west-2. Which additional step should the solutions architect take?

Options

  • AMigrate the database to an Amazon RDS for MySQL instance with a cross-Region read replica in
  • BMigrate the database to an Amazon Aurora global database with the primary in us-east-1 and the
  • CMigrate the database to an Amazon RDS for MySQL instance with a Multi-AZ deployment.
  • DCreate a MySQL standby database on an Amazon EC2 instance in us-west-2.

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(46 responses)
  • A
    20% (9)
  • B
    67% (31)
  • C
    4% (2)
  • D
    9% (4)

Explanation

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/global-database/

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