Q75 — AWS SAA-C03 Ch.4

Question 75 of 105 | ← Chapter 4

Q270. An ecommerce company is experiencing an increase in user traffic.The company's store is deployed on Amazon EC2 instances as a two-tier web application consisting of a web tier and a separate database tier. As traffic increases, the company notices that the architecture is causing significant delays in sending timely marketing and order confirmation email to users.The company wants to reduce the time it spends resolving complex email delivery issues and minimize operational overhead.What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

Correct Answer: B. Configure the web instance to send email through Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)

Explanation

https://aws.amazon.com/ses/Use casesTransactional emailsSend immediate, trigger-based communications from your application to customers, such as purchase confirmations or password resets.Marketing emailsPromote your products and services such as special offers and newsletters, with customized content and email templates.Bulk email communicationSend bulk communications, including notifications and announcements, to large communities, and track results using configuration sets.Amazon SES is for applications that need to send communications via email. Amazon SES supports custom email header fields, and many MIME types.By contrast, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is for messaging-oriented applications, with multiple subscribers requesting and receiving "push" notifications of time-critical messages via a choice of transport protocols, including HTTP, Amazon SQS, and email. The body of an Amazon SNS notification is limited to 8192 characters of UTF-8 strings, and isn't intended to support multimedia content.https://aws.amazon.com/ses/faqs/