An application runs on an EC2 instance and processes orders on a nightly basis. This EC2 instance needs to access the orders that are stored in S3.
How would you recommend the EC2 instance access the orders securely?
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An application runs on an EC2 instance and processes orders on a nightly basis. This EC2 instance needs to access the orders that are stored in S3.
How would you recommend the EC2 instance access the orders securely?
You have an Auto Scaling group configured to a minimum capacity of 1 and a maximum capacity of 5, designed to launch EC2 instances across 3 Availability Zones. During a low utilization period, an entire Availability Zone went down and your application experienced downtime.
What can you do to ensure that your application remains highly available?
A development team has deployed a REST API in Amazon API Gateway to two different stages - a test stage and a prod stage. The test stage is used as a test build and the prod stage as a stable build. After the updates have passed the test, the team wishes to promote the test stage to the prod stage.
Which of the following represents the optimal solution for this use-case?
Recently, you started an online learning platform using AWS Lambda and AWS Gateway API. Your first version was successful, and you began developing new features for the second version. You would like to gradually introduce the second version by routing only 10% of the incoming traffic to the new Lambda version.
Which solution should you opt for?
A mobile gaming company is experiencing heavy read traffic to its Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) database that retrieves player’s scores and stats. The company is using RDS database instance type db.m5.12xlarge, which is not cost-effective for their budget. They would like to implement a strategy to deal with the high volume of read traffic, reduce latency, and also downsize the instance size to cut costs.
As a Developer, which of the following solutions do you recommend?
An intern at an IT company is getting started with AWS Cloud and wants to understand the following Amazon S3 bucket access policy:

As a Developer Associate, can you help him identify what the policy is for?