QuestionQ73

Content Domain 3: Cloud Technology and Services

A company has a MariaDB database on premises. The company wants to move the data to the AWS Cloud.

Which AWS service will host this database with the LEAST amount of operational overhead?

  • A Amazon RDS
  • B Amazon Neptune
  • C Amazon S3
  • D Amazon DynamoDB
Explanation

Amazon RDS is a managed relational database service that supports MariaDB and automatically handles patching, backups, failover, and scaling, minimizing operational overhead compared to self-managed databases. Neptune is for graphs, S3 for object storage, and DynamoDB for NoSQL—none are suitable relational database replacements.

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