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A company's web application is using multiple Linux Amazon EC2 instances and storing data on Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. The company is looking for a solution to increase the resiliency of the application in case of a failure and to provide storage that complies with atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID).
What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

  • A. Launch the application on EC2 instances in each Availability Zone. Attach EBS volumes to each EC2 instance.
  • B. Create an Application Load Balancer with Auto Scaling groups across multiple Availability Zones. Mount an instance store on each EC2 instance.
  • C. Create an Application Load Balancer with Auto Scaling groups across multiple Availability Zones. Store data on Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) and mount a target on each instance.
  • D. Create an Application Load Balancer with Auto Scaling groups across multiple Availability Zones. Store data using Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA).
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Suggested Answer: C 🗳️
How Amazon EFS Works with Amazon EC2
The following illustration shows an example VPC accessing an Amazon EFS file system. Here, EC2 instances in the VPC have file systems mounted.
In this illustration, the VPC has three Availability Zones, and each has one mount target created in it. We recommend that you access the file system from a mount target within the same Availability Zone. One of the Availability Zones has two subnets. However, a mount target is created in only one of the subnets.


Benefits of Auto Scaling -
Better fault tolerance. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling can detect when an instance is unhealthy, terminate it, and launch an instance to replace it. You can also configure Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to use multiple Availability Zones. If one Availability Zone becomes unavailable, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling can launch instances in another one to compensate.
Better availability. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps ensure that your application always has the right amount of capacity to handle the current traffic demand.
Better cost management. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling can dynamically increase and decrease capacity as needed. Because you pay for the EC2 instances you use, you save money by launching instances when they are needed and terminating them when they aren't.
Reference:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/how-it-works.html#how-it-works-ec2 https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/auto-scaling-benefits.html

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azeqsd
Highly Voted 3 years, 6 months ago
I think it's C, with EFS : "Relational databases were built around the notion of ACID and the easiest way to achieve ACID was to keep everything on the same box." https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/startups/distributed-data-stores-for-mere-mortals/
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mrkid3085
3 years, 6 months ago
EFS for this requirement ACID
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Rajjay
3 years, 5 months ago
EFS can be shared across all EC2 instances, hence data can be ACID compliant and EFS is resilient.
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mynk29
Highly Voted 3 years, 7 months ago
Except.. EFS is NFS and therefore is not atomic. Only EBS is atomic in nature and thus Answer should be A in my opinion.
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spring21
Most Recent 5 months ago
Answer: A -- Yes, Amazon EBS supports ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability). ACID is a set of properties that ensure data is accurate and reliable in a database.
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spring21
5 months ago
No, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) does not support ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability),
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gargaditya
3 years, 5 months ago
C EFS works. A-EFS works with multiple Linux instances using io1/io2/block express(EBS Multi Attach) but is tied to one single AZ. Option contradicts itself ,EBS cannot span AZ. B-Instance store is only used for temporary storage. It cannot be shared across EC2s. C-EFS can span AZ D-Would have worked if One Zone Tier was not used. Current option reduces 'resiliency'
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RAVI_BASIS
3 years, 5 months ago
ANS : A
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Vibes
3 years, 5 months ago
C is right
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