DOP-C02 Exam Dumps : AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

The latency in processing and ingesting logs can be caused by several factors, such as the throughput of the Kinesis data stream, the concurrency of the Lambda function, and the configuration of the event source mapping. To reduce the latency, the following steps can be taken:

Create a data stream consumer with enhanced fan-out. Set the Lambda function that processes the logs as the consumer. This will allow the Lambda function to receive records from the data stream with dedicated throughput of up to 2 MB per second per shard, independent of other consumers1. This will reduce the contention and delay in accessing the data stream.

Increase the ParallelizationFactor setting in the Lambda event source mapping. This will allow the Lambda service to invoke more instances of the function concurrently to process the records from the data stream2. This will increase the processing capacity and reduce the backlog of records in the data stream.

Configure reserved concurrency for the Lambda function that processes the logs. This will ensure that the function has enough concurrency available to handle the increased load from the data stream3. This will prevent the function from being throttled by the account-level concurrency limit.

The other options are not effective or may have negative impacts on the latency. Option D is not suitable because increasing the batch size in the Kinesis data stream will increase the amount of data that the Lambda function has to process in each invocation, which may increase the execution time and latency4. Option E is not advisable because turning off the ReportBatchItemFailures setting in the Lambda event source mapping will prevent the Lambda service from retrying the failed records, which may result in data loss. Option F is not necessary because increasing the number of shards in the Kinesis data stream will increase the throughput of the data stream, but it will not affect the processing speed of the Lambda function, which is the bottleneck in this scenario.

1: Using AWS Lambda with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams - AWS Lambda

2: AWS Lambda event source mappings - AWS Lambda

3: Managing concurrency for a Lambda function - AWS Lambda

4: AWS Lambda function scaling - AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda event source mappings - AWS Lambda

Scaling Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with AWS CloudFormation - Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Step 1: Using Service Control Policies (SCPs) for EC2 SecurityTo limit the use of EC2 instance credentials to the specific EC2 instance they are assigned to, you can create a Service Control Policy (SCP) that verifies specific conditions, such as whether the EC2 instance ' s source VPC and private IP match expected values.

Action: Create an SCP that checks whether the values of the aws:EC2InstanceSourceVPC and aws:SourceVpc condition keys are the same. Deny access if they are not.

Why: This ensures that credentials cannot be used outside the designated EC2 instance or VPC.

Step 2: Further Validation with Private IPsThe SCP should also verify that the EC2 instance ' s private IP matches the IP range specified for the VPC. If the instance ' s private IP does not match, access should be denied.

Action: In the same SCP, check whether the values of the aws:EC2InstanceSourcePrivateIP and aws:VpcSourceIP condition keys are the same. Deny access if they are not.

Why: This ensures that the credentials are only used within the specific EC2 instance and its associated VPC.