Exam AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 topic 1 question 196 discussion

changing my answer to D after researching a bit. The DynamoDB TTL feature allows you to define a per-item timestamp to determine when an item is no longer needed. Shortly after the date and time of the specified timestamp, DynamoDB deletes the item from your table without consuming any write throughput.

Always bet on the TTL

I would day C Because D requires extending the application to add the timestamp attribute. Which is by itself a development effort.

D is the correct answer

D is the best answer, dynamostreams is not suitable for this use cases

Option D is the most suitable solution to meet the company's requirements while minimizing cost and development effort. TTL (Time to Live) Attribute: DynamoDB provides a feature called Time to Live (TTL), which allows you to automatically delete items from a table after a specified period. By adding a TTL attribute to each item with a value of the current timestamp plus 30 days, you can let DynamoDB automatically delete items older than 30 days. This eliminates the need for manual deletion efforts or periodic stack redeployment. Minimal Development Effort Cost-Effective

use ttl

A and B don't solve anything. Between C and D, C requires more cost due to Lambda executions. D uses the TTL built-in feature so it won't cost extra. Also, D does not require extra development and is a matter of configuration. In old-school developer speak, don't write code if your DBA can do some work!

DynamoDB Time to Live was designed to handle this kind of requirement where an item is no longer needed. TTL is provided at no extra cost as a means to reduce stored data volumes by retaining only the items that remain current for your workload’s needs

D. Extend the application to add an attribute that has a value of the current timestamp plus 30 days to each new item that is created in the table. Configure DynamoDB to use the attribute as the TTL attribute. The main reasons are: Using DynamoDB's built-in TTL functionality is the most direct way to handle data expiration. It avoids the complexity of triggers, streams, and lambda functions in option C. Modifying the application code to add the TTL attribute is relatively simple and minimizes operational overhead

By adding a TTL attribute to the DynamoDB table and setting it to the current timestamp plus 30 days, DynamoDB will automatically delete the items that are older than 30 days. This solution eliminates the need for manual deletion or additional infrastructure components. A. Redeploying the CloudFormation stack every 30 days and deleting the original stack introduces unnecessary complexity and operational overhead. B. Using an EC2 instance with a monitoring application and a script to delete items older than 30 days adds additional infrastructure and maintenance efforts. C. Configuring DynamoDB Streams to invoke a Lambda function to delete items older than 30 days adds complexity and requires additional development and operational effort compared to using the built-in TTL feature of DynamoDB.

D: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/TTL.html

Amazon DynamoDB Time to Live (TTL) allows you to define a per-item timestamp to determine when an item is no longer needed.

C is incorrect because it can take more than 15 minutes to delete the old data. Lambda won't work

Clear case for TTL - every object gets deleted after a certain period of time

Use DynamoDB TTL feature to achieve this..

C is absurd. DynamoDB usually is a RDS with high iops (read/write operations on tables), executing a Lambda function eachtime you insert a item will not be cost-effective.It's much better create such a field the question propose, and manage the delete with a SQL delete sentence: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/SQLtoNoSQL.DeleteData.html