Exam AWS Certified Developer - Associate DVA-C02 topic 1 question 24 discussion

a The solution that will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead is option A: Host each website by using AWS Amplify with a serverless backend. AWS Amplify is a fully managed service that allows developers to build and deploy web applications and static websites. With Amplify, developers can easily connect their repositories, such as AWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket, and GitHub, to automatically build and deploy changes to the website based on code merges. Amplify also supports phased releases with multiple environments, including development, staging, user acceptance testing, and production, which can be linked to specific branches in the repository. Additionally, Amplify uses HTTPS for all data exchange by default and has a serverless backend, which means there are no servers to maintain. Overall, this solution provides the least operational overhead while meeting all the specified requirements.

The correct answer is A. AWS Amplify is an all in one service for the requirement. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/welcome.html Option C is almost correct, but it does not mention how to implement HTTPS. Option B and D are wrong. They need to keep running servers.

A) AWS Amplify is purpose-built for deploying and hosting static websites and serverless backends with minimal operational overhead. B) Eliminated - Elastic Beanstalk is overkill for hosting static websites since it is designed for running full-stack web applications with servers C) Eliminated : S3 does not natively support branch-to-environment linking D) Eliminated: Using EC2 instances is entirely unnecessary for hosting static websites. It involves the highest operational overhead

keyword: - static websites - version control systems, including AWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket, and GitHub. - phased releases by using development, staging, user acceptance testing, and production environments - use HTTPS for all data exchange - not require servers to run continuously. - LEAST operational overhead ==> discard D: EC2 instance is not serverless, violate 'not require servers to run continuously' ==> discard C: you must set up many thing manually, create each bucket for each stage,... .Violate 'LEAST operational overhead' ==> Discard B: it excess capacity for 'static websites', usually using when deploy dynamic complexity backend, you must manage EC2, ELB, Auto Scaling, ... so violate 'LEAST operational overhead' A fits all requirement above

Amplify hosting provides a git based workflow for hosting full stack server less applications with continuous deployment.

A is the correct answer.

Amplify is the best option here to host website / static site as well with Hosting Environment option which can pull code from github, codecommit and bitbucket. Webapp Hosting can be for different envs like Prod, Dev etc. This gives serverless hosting option along with HTTPS. S3 static website hosting has no HTTPS and EB and EC2 are running instances.

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Option A is the answer. Ofcourse, until now we have been used to the fact that we need to use S3 for static website hosting. But there are a lot of requirements described in the question like the source code hosting, phased releases with different environments and HTTPS for all data exchange (which is not possible with S3 Hosting). AWS Amplify does all of this for you with the least operational overhead.

For fellow ACloudGurus, I was taught to associate static website hosting to S3 buckets. But apparently, "least operational overhead" is achieved using Amplify, as it natively supports deployment to various environments and seamlessly integrates with version control systems. Whereas, S3 requires configuring multiple buckets, configuring CodePipeline and integrating with each bucket.

Static Website should be C ..using S3