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    PracticeAWS Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C02)AWS Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 Practice Exam 5Question 40
    Easy1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 3.1: Operational ExcellenceSecurityAthenaLogging

    AWS SAP-C02 · Question 40 · Domain 3.1: Operational Excellence

    A security team is investigating a potential breach. They need to analyze VPC Flow Logs, AWS CloudTrail logs, and Amazon Route 53 DNS logs across 50 AWS accounts. The logs are currently stored in a centralized Amazon S3 bucket in a dedicated Security account. The team needs to query this massive dataset using standard SQL without provisioning any infrastructure. Which service should they use?

    Answer options:

    A.

    Amazon Athena

    B.

    Amazon Redshift

    C.

    Amazon OpenSearch Service

    D.

    AWS Glue

    How to approach this question

    Identify the serverless SQL query engine for data stored in S3.

    Full Answer

    A.Amazon Athena✓ Correct
    Amazon Athena
    Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. It is the standard tool for ad-hoc security investigations of logs stored in S3.

    Common mistakes

    Choosing OpenSearch, which requires cluster provisioning and uses a different query language (DSL) rather than standard SQL.
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