SAA-C03 Q641 · DR

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A company needs a solution to back up and protect critical AWS resources. The company needs to regularly take backups of several Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases. To ensure high resiliency, the company must have the ability to validate and restore backups. Which solution meets the requirement with LEAST operational overhead?

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**Answer A: AWS Backup with restoration testing plan** satisfies every requirement with minimal operational overhead:

1. **Backup scheduling**: AWS Backup natively supports creating **backup plans** with schedules, lifecycle rules, and retention policies for both EC2 instances and RDS databases — no custom code needed.

2. **Multi-resource support**: AWS Backup is a **centralized, fully managed service** that supports EC2, RDS (including PostgreSQL), EBS, EFS, DynamoDB, and more through a single policy framework.

3. **Restoration validation**: AWS Backup introduced **Restore Testing** (launched 2023), which allows you to define a **restore testing plan** that automatically restores backups on a schedule, validates them, and then cleans up the restored resources. This directly addresses t

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