Q78 — AWS SAA-C03 Ch.13

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Q978. A disaster response team is using drones to collect images of recent storm damage. The response team's laptops lack the storage and compute capacity to transfer the images and process the data. While the team has Amazon EC2 instances for processing and Amazon S3 buckets for storage,network connectivity is intermittent and unreliable.The images need to be processed to evaluate the damage.What should a solutions architect recommend?

Correct Answer: A. Use AWS Snowball Edge devices to process and store the images

Explanation

The correct answer is:A. Use AWS Snowball Edge devices to process and store the imagesExplanation:A. Use AWS Snowball Edge devices to process and store the images- This is the best solution for the given scenario, where the team has intermittent and unreliable network connectivity. AWS Snowball Edge is a data transfer device that combines storage and compute capabilities, allowing you to perform local processing and storage of data even in areas with limited or unreliable network connectivity.- The Snowball Edge device can be shipped to the disaster response team's location, where they can use it to ingest the drone images, process them locally, and then transfer the processed data to Amazon S3 when the network connectivity is available.- This approach avoids the need for continuous network connectivity and allows the team to work with the data on-site, which is critical in a disaster response scenario.B. Upload the images to Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) during intermittent connectivity to EC2 instances- This solution would not work well, as SQS is a message queue service, not a storage or processing solution. Uploading the images to SQS would not provide the necessary storage or compute capabilities required to process the data.C. Configure Amazon Data Firehose to create multiple delivery streams aimed separately at the S3 buckets for storage and the EC2 instances for processing the images.- This solution would also not be suitable, as Firehose is primarily designed for real-time data ingestion and streaming, which may not be feasible with the intermittent network connectivity in the disaster response scenario.D. Use AWS Storage Gateway pre-installed on a hardware appliance to cache the images locally for Amazon S3 to process the images when connectivity becomes available- While this solution could work, it would require additional hardware, which may not be readily available in a disaster response scenario. Additionally, the processing of the images would still be dependent on the network connectivity to Amazon S3, which is unreliable in the given scenario.In summary, the best solution is to use AWS Snowball Edge devices, as they provide both storage and compute capabilities, allowing the disaster response team to process the images locally and then transfer the data to Amazon S3 when the network connectivity is available.