A Company Is Migrating a Legacy Application from an On-Premises

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A company is migrating a legacy application from an on-premises data center to AWS. The application consists of a single application server and a Microsoft SQL Server database server. Each server is deployed on a VMware VM that consumes 500 TB of data across multiple attached volumes. The company has established a 10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connection from the closest AWS Region to its on-premises data center. The Direct Connect connection is not currently in use by other services. Which combination of steps should a solutions architect take to migrate the application with the LEAST amount of downtime? (Choose two.)

• A) Use an AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) replication job to migrate the database server VM to AWS.
• B) Use VM Import/Export to import the application server VM.
• C) Export the VM images to an AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized device.
• D) Use an AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) replication job to migrate the application server VM to AWS.
• E) Use an AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) replication instance to migrate the database to an Amazon RDS DB instance.

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