Amazon Web Services Related Exams
SOA-C01 Exam
A company has an application running on a fleet of Microsoft Windows instances. Patches to the operating system need to be applied each month. AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager is used to apply the patches on a schedule.
When the fleet is being patched, customers complain about delayed service responses.
What can be done to ensure patches are deployed with MINIMAL customer impact?
An application running on Amazon EC2 allows users to launch batch jobs for data analysis. The jobs are run asynchronously, and the user is notified when they are complete. While multiple jobs can run concurrently, a user’s request need not be fulfilled for up to 24 hours. To run a job, the application launches an additional EC2 instance that performs all the analytics calculations. A job takes between 75 and 110 minutes to complete and cannot be interrupted.
What is the MOST cost-effective way to run this workload?
A SysOps Administrator has created an Amazon EC2 instance using an AWS CloudFormation template in the us-east-1 Region. The Administrator finds that this template has failed to create an EC2 instance in the uswest-2 Region.
What is one cause for this failure?