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AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) · Free practice question 7 of 12

Data Lifecycle Manager for EBS snapshots

Operations staff at Holloway Dental create EBS snapshots of about 80 volumes by hand each night and delete old snapshots when they remember. The company wants snapshots created daily for volumes with the tag Backup=true and kept for 14 days, fully automated with native EBS tooling. What should a solutions architect use?

  1. A.A cron job on a bastion host that calls the AWS CLI
  2. B.S3 lifecycle rules applied to the snapshots
  3. C.Amazon EventBridge rules that copy volumes to Amazon S3
  4. D.Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager policies targeting volumes by tag
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Correct answer: D. Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager policies targeting volumes by tag

Why: Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager automates the creation, retention, and deletion of EBS snapshots based on policies that target resources by tag. A cron job must be maintained and monitored, S3 lifecycle rules do not manage EBS snapshots, and EventBridge rules cannot copy volumes to S3 on their own.

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