A Company Has Hired a Solutions Architect to Design a Reliable

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A company has hired a solutions architect to design a reliable architecture for its application. The application consists of one Amazon RDS DB instance and two manually provisioned Amazon EC2 instances that run web servers. The EC2 instances are located in a single Availability Zone. An employee recently deleted the DB instance, and the application was unavailable for 24 hours as a result. The company is concerned with the overall reliability of its environment. What should the solutions architect do to maximize reliability of the application's infrastructure?

• A) Delete one EC2 instance and enable termination protection on the other EC2 instance. Update the DB instance to be Multi-AZ, and enable deletion protection.
• B) Update the DB instance to be Multi-AZ, and enable deletion protection. Place the EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer, and run them in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones.
• C) Create an additional DB instance along with an Amazon API Gateway and an AWS Lambda function. Configure the application to invoke the Lambda function through API Gateway. Have the Lambda function write the data to the two DB instances.
• D) Place the EC2 instances in an EC2 Auto Scaling group that has multiple subnets located in multiple Availability Zones. Use Spot Instances instead of On-Demand Instances. Set up Amazon CloudWatch alarms to monitor the health of the instances. Update the DB instance to be Multi-AZ, and enable deletion protection.

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Definitions:

Budgeted Production

Refers to the number of units that a company plans to produce during a specific period, based on forecasted sales and inventory requirements.

Labor Rate Variance

A measure used in accounting to calculate the difference between the actual cost of labor and the expected (or standard) cost.

Direct Labor Cost

The total expense of paying for the labor of employees directly involved in manufacturing a product or delivering a service.

Budgeted Direct Labor Cost

The estimated cost of labor directly involved in the production process, as planned in the budget.