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SOA-C02 · Question #538
A SysOps administrator wants to share a copy of a production database with a migration account. The production database is hosted on an Amazon RDS DB instance and is encrypted at rest with an AWS…
The correct answer is A. Take a snapshot of the RDS DB instance in the production account. Amend the KMS key policy. https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/share-encrypted-rds-snapshot-kms-key
Submitted by zhang_li· Mar 30, 2026Security and Compliance
Question
A SysOps administrator wants to share a copy of a production database with a migration account. The production database is hosted on an Amazon RDS DB instance and is encrypted at rest with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key that has an alias of production-rds-key. What must the SysOps administrator do to meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?
Options
- ATake a snapshot of the RDS DB instance in the production account. Amend the KMS key policy
- BCreate an RDS read replica in the migration account. Configure the KMS key policy to replicate
- CTake a snapshot of the RDS DB instance in the production account. Share the snapshot with the
- DUse native database toolsets to export the RDS DB instance to Amazon S3. Create an S3 bucket
How the community answered
(59 responses)- A76% (45)
- B14% (8)
- C7% (4)
- D3% (2)
Explanation
https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/share-encrypted-rds-snapshot-kms-key
Topics
#RDS snapshot sharing#KMS key policy#cross-account access#encryption at rest
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