Q25Design Resilient Architectures
A company is moving its data center and needs to securely transfer 50 TB of data to AWS within 2 weeks. The current data center has a Site-to-Site VPN connection to AWS that is 90% utilized. Which AWS service should a solutions architect use to satisfy these requirements?
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C 9
90% utilization of the bandwidth = they discouraged the use of internet bandwidth for uploading, go seek for offline data seeding to AWS method
C 5
50 TB of data to AWS within 2 weeks = Snowball Edge Storage Optimized
C 3
A DataSync is for data
B Direct connect takes longer than 2 weeks
D StorageGateway is useless without more contex
C is only remaining choice.
2
Not memtioned network bandwidth. How we know that?
C 2
50 TB of data to AWS within 2 weeks + 90% utilization already be used -> snowball
2
Assuming vpn is 1Gbps, it can still transfer 50TB with in 5days with only 10% bandwidth avaliable
1
hi bro, setting a new DX will usually takes longer than 2 weeks..... and we have not even started any Data transfer over the wire yet.
B 1
(B) is correct.
Direct Connect is "A dedicated connection [is] made through a 1-Gbps, 10-Gbps, or 100-Gbps Ethernet port dedicated to a single customer." DX uses 802.1Q VLANs providing a dedicated private network connection to AWS. At 1-Gbps, transfer takes less than 5 days; at 100-Gbps it takes less than 67 minutes. Since it's a data center & not an oil rig in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, data center should be able to get this service.
(C) is incorrect
"Consider Snowball Edge if you need to run computing in rugged, austere, mobile, or disconnected (or intermittently connected) environments. Also consider it for large-scale data transfers and migrations when bandwidth is not available for use of a high-speed online transfer service, such as AWS DataSync."
1
data centers don't "discouraged the use of internet bandwidth."
1
(A) The problem is not that DataSync deals with data (we have to 'transfer 50 TB of data'). The issue is with the VPC endpoint; it doesn't increase our bandwidth. DataSync task is capable fully utilizing 10-Gbps over a network link between your on-premises environment and AWS.
(B) works between 67-minutes & 5 days.
(C) Works but is NOT what I would recommend to a data center.
(D) over VPN connection that is 90% utilized, takes more than 6 weeks.
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B > A > C > D
1
Doesn't matter, 90% of it is utilised.