A company runs an encrypted Amazon RDS for Oracle DB instance. The company wants to make regular backups available in another AWS Region. What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets…

The correct answer is A. Modify the DB instance. Enable cross-Region automated backups. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_ReplicateBackups.html Enabling cross-Region automated backups You can enable backup replication on new or existing DB instances using the Amazon RDS console. You can also use the…

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A company runs an encrypted Amazon RDS for Oracle DB instance. The company wants to make regular backups available in another AWS Region. What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

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AModify the DB instance. Enable cross-Region automated backups.
BCreate an RDS read replica in another Region. Create a snapshot of the read replica.
CUse AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to copy the data to a DB instance in another
DTemporarily turn off encryption on the DB instance. Take a snapshot. Copy the snapshot to

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Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_ReplicateBackups.html Enabling cross-Region automated backups You can enable backup replication on new or existing DB instances using the Amazon RDS console. You can also use the start-db-instance-automated-backups-replication AWS CLI command or the StartDBInstanceAutomatedBackupsReplication RDS API operation. You can replicate up to 20 backups to each destination AWS Region for each AWS account.

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