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Horizontal scaling on AWS is best characterised as:Read the answer and worked solution →Which AWS service caches static and dynamic content at edge locations close to end users?Read the answer and worked solution →Which AWS service centralises access policies (Service Control Policies / SCPs) across many AWS accounts in an organisation?Read the answer and worked solution →Which AWS service is purpose-built to find and classify sensitive data (e.g. PII, credit-card numbers) inside Amazon S3 buckets?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Horizontal scaling on AWS is best characterised as:

  1. Migrating the workload to S3 Glacier
  2. Adding more identical instances behind a load balancer to share traffic
  3. Switching all servers to a single AZ for simplicity
  4. Increasing the CPU and memory of a single existing EC2 instance
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Correct answer: B. Adding more identical instances behind a load balancer to share traffic

Scale-out adds instances vertical scale (scale-up) grows a single instance. Glacier is archival storage consolidating into one AZ removes resilience.

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Which AWS service caches static and dynamic content at edge locations close to end users?

  1. Amazon CloudFront (CDN)
  2. AWS Outposts
  3. Amazon Aurora clusters
  4. Amazon EBS volumes
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Correct answer: A. Amazon CloudFront (CDN)

CloudFront is AWS's CDN — caches at hundreds of edge POPs. EBS is per-VM block storage, Aurora is a managed DB, Outposts is on-prem AWS hardware.

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Which AWS service centralises access policies (Service Control Policies / SCPs) across many AWS accounts in an organisation?

  1. AWS Organizations
  2. AWS Trusted Advisor
  3. Amazon Pinpoint
  4. AWS Cost Explorer
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Correct answer: A. AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations groups accounts into OUs and applies SCPs that bound what any account in the OU may do. Cost Explorer is billing analytics Trusted Advisor is best-practice checks Pinpoint is marketing analytics.

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