A startup is building an application with unpredictable, intermittent traffic. They need a relational database that can automatically scale compute capacity up and down based on application demand, and pause during periods of inactivity. Which service should they use?

Answer options:

Amazon RDS for MySQL

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon Aurora Serverless

Amazon Redshift

How to approach this question

Match 'relational', 'unpredictable', and 'pause'.

Full Answer

C.Amazon Aurora Serverless✓ Correct

Amazon Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration for Amazon Aurora. It automatically scales compute capacity and can scale to zero (pause) when there is no activity.

Common mistakes

Choosing standard RDS or DynamoDB.

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