AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate (DEA-C01)
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A company has an application that uses an Amazon API Gateway REST API and an AWS Lambda function to retrieve data from an Amazon DynamoDB instance. Users recently reported intermittent high latency in the application's response times. A data engineer finds that the Lambda function experiences frequent throttling when the company's other Lambda functions experience increased invocations.
The company wants to ensure the API's Lambda function operates without being affected by other Lambda functions.
Which solution will meet this requirement MOST cost-effectively?
A company needs a solution to manage costs for an existing Amazon DynamoDB table. The company also needs to control the size of the table. The solution must not disrupt any ongoing read or write operations. The company wants to use a solution that automatically deletes data from the table after 1 month.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST ongoing maintenance?
A data engineer is building a data pipeline on AWS by using AWS Glue extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs. The data engineer needs to process data from Amazon RDS and MongoDB, perform transformations, and load the transformed data into Amazon Redshift for analytics. The data updates must occur every hour.
Which combination of tasks will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead? (Choose two.)
A data engineer must orchestrate a series of Amazon Athena queries that will run every day. Each query can run for more than 15 minutes.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Choose two.)
A company stores customer data in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company must permanently delete all customer data that is older than 7 years.
A data engineer has a one-time task to read data from objects that are in Apache Parquet format in an Amazon S3 bucket. The data engineer needs to query only one column of the data.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A data engineer runs Amazon Athena queries on data that is in an Amazon S3 bucket. The Athena queries use AWS Glue Data Catalog as a metadata table.
The data engineer notices that the Athena query plans are experiencing a performance bottleneck. The data engineer determines that the cause of the performance bottleneck is the large number of partitions that are in the S3 bucket. The data engineer must resolve the performance bottleneck and reduce Athena query planning time.
Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company needs to store semi-structured transactional data in a serverless database.
The application writes data infrequently but reads it frequently, with millisecond retrieval required.
During a security review, a company identified a vulnerability in an AWS Glue job. The company discovered that credentials to access an Amazon Redshift cluster were hard coded in the job script.
A data engineer must remediate the security vulnerability in the AWS Glue job. The solution must securely store the credentials.
Which combination of steps should the data engineer take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company is building a new application that ingests CSV files into Amazon Redshift. The company has developed the frontend for the application.
The files are stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. Files are no larger than 5 MB.
A data engineer is developing the extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipeline for the CSV files. The data engineer configured a Redshift cluster and an AWS Lambda function that copies the data out of the files into the Redshift cluster.
Which additional steps should the data engineer perform to meet these requirements?
A data engineer is building an automated extract, transform, and load (ETL) ingestion pipeline by using AWS Glue. The pipeline ingests compressed files that are in an Amazon S3 bucket. The ingestion pipeline must support incremental data processing.
Which AWS Glue feature should the data engineer use to meet this requirement?
A company has a data processing pipeline that includes several dozen steps. The data processing pipeline needs to send alerts in real time when a step fails or succeeds. The data processing pipeline uses a combination of Amazon S3 buckets, AWS Lambda functions, and AWS Step Functions state machines.
A data engineer needs to create a solution to monitor the entire pipeline.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has several new datasets in CSV and JSON formats. A data engineer needs to make the data available to a team of data analysts who will analyze the data by using SQL queries.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective way?
A company stores time-series data that is collected from streaming services in an Amazon S3 bucket. The company must ensure that only workloads that are deployed within the company's VPC can access the data.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company uses Amazon RDS for MySQL as the database for a critical application. The database workload is mostly writes, with a small number of reads.
A data engineer notices that the CPU utilization of the DB instance is very high. The high CPU utilization is slowing down the application. The data engineer must reduce the CPU utilization of the DB Instance.
Which actions should the data engineer take to meet this requirement? (Choose two.)
A company uses Amazon S3 buckets, AWS Glue tables, and Amazon Athena as components of a data lake. Recently, the company expanded its sales range to multiple new states. The company wants to introduce state names as a new partition to the existing S3 bucket, which is currently partitioned by date.
The company needs to ensure that additional partitions will not disrupt daily synchronization between the AWS Glue Data Catalog and the S3 buckets.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A data engineer maintains custom Python scripts that perform a data formatting process that many AWS Lambda functions use. When the data engineer needs to modify the Python scripts, the data engineer must manually update all the Lambda functions.
The data engineer requires a less manual way to update the Lambda functions.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A data engineer is building a new data pipeline that stores metadata in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The data engineer must ensure that all items that are older than a specified age are removed from the DynamoDB table daily.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST configuration effort?
A company currently uses a provisioned Amazon EMR cluster that includes general purpose Amazon EC2 instances. The EMR cluster uses EMR managed scaling between one to five task nodes for the company's long-running Apache Spark extract, transform, and load (ETL) job. The company runs the ETL job every day.
When the company runs the ETL job, the EMR cluster quickly scales up to five nodes. The EMR cluster often reaches maximum CPU usage, but the memory usage remains under 30%.
The company wants to modify the EMR cluster configuration to reduce the EMR costs to run the daily ETL job.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A data engineer needs to debug an AWS Glue job that reads from Amazon S3 and writes to Amazon Redshift. The data engineer enabled the bookmark feature for the AWS Glue job. The data engineer has set the maximum concurrency for the AWS Glue job to 1.
The AWS Glue job is successfully writing the output to Amazon Redshift. However, the Amazon S3 files that were loaded during previous runs of the AWS Glue job are being reprocessed by subsequent runs.
What is the likely reason the AWS Glue job is reprocessing the files?
An ecommerce company stores sales data in an AWS Glue table named sales_data. The company stores the sales_data table in an Amazon S3 Standard bucket. The table contains columns named order_id, customer_id, product_id, order_date, shipping_date, and order_amount.
The company wants to improve query performance by partitioning the sales_data table by order_date. The company needs to add the partition to the existing sales_data table in AWS Glue.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company stores server logs in an Amazon 53 bucket. The company needs to keep the logs for 1 year. The logs are not required after 1 year.
A data engineer needs a solution to automatically delete logs that are older than 1 year.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A media company wants to improve a system that recommends media content to customer based on user behavior and preferences. To improve the recommendation system, the company needs to incorporate insights from third-party datasets into the company's existing analytics platform.
The company wants to minimize the effort and time required to incorporate third-party datasets.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company needs to collect logs for an Amazon RDS for MySQL database and make the logs available for audits. The logs must track each user that modifies data in the database or makes changes to the database instance.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
An airline company is collecting metrics about flight activities for analytics. The company is conducting a proof of concept (POC) test to show how analytics can provide insights that the company can use to increase on-time departures.
The POC test uses objects in Amazon S3 that contain the metrics in .csv format. The POC test uses Amazon Athena to query the data. The data is partitioned in the S3 bucket by date.
As the amount of data increases, the company wants to optimize the storage solution to improve query performance.
Which combination of solutions will meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company stores petabytes of data in thousands of Amazon S3 buckets in the S3 Standard storage class. The data supports analytics workloads that have unpredictable and variable data access patterns.
The company does not access some data for months. However, the company must be able to retrieve all data within milliseconds. The company needs to optimize S3 storage costs.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company’s data processing pipeline uses AWS Glue jobs and AWS Glue Data Catalog. All AWS Glue jobs must run in a custom VPC inside a private subnet. The company uses a NAT gateway to support outbound connections.
A data engineer needs to use AWS Glue to migrate data from an on-premises PostgreSQL database to Amazon S3. There is no current network connection between AWS and the on-premises environment. However, the data engineer has updated the on-premises database to allow traffic from the custom VPC.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses Amazon S3 and AWS Glue Data Catalog to manage a data lake that contains contact information for customers. The company uses PySpark and AWS Glue jobs with a DynamicFrame to run a workflow that processes data within the data lake.
A data engineer notices that the workflow is generating errors as a result of how customer postal codes are stored in the data lake. Some postal codes include unnecessary numbers or invalid characters.
The data engineer needs a solution to address the errors and correct the postal codes in the data lake.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company has a data lake in Amazon 53. The company uses AWS Glue to catalog data and AWS Glue Studio to implement data extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines.
The company needs to ensure that data quality issues are checked every time the pipelines run. A data engineer must enhance the existing pipelines to evaluate data quality rules based on predefined thresholds.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST implementation effort?
A company is creating a new data pipeline to populate a data lake. A data analyst needs to prepare and standardize the data before a data engineering team can perform advanced data transformations. The data analyst needs a solution to process the data that does not require writing new code.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?
A company creates a new non-production application that runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. The application needs to communicate with an Amazon RDS database instance using Java Database Connectivity (JDBC). The EC2 instances and the RDS database instance are in the same subnet.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A company uses Amazon S3 as a data lake. The company sets up a data warehouse by using a multi-node Amazon Redshift cluster. The company organizes the data files in the data lake based on the data source of each data file.
The company loads all the data files into one table in the Redshift cluster by using a separate COPY command for each data file location. This approach takes a long time to load all the data files into the table. The company must increase the speed of the data ingestion. The company does not want to increase the cost of the process.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A retail company uses an Amazon Redshift data warehouse and an Amazon S3 bucket. The company ingests retail order data into the S3 bucket every day.
The company stores all order data at a single path within the S3 bucket. The data has more than 100 columns. The company ingests the order data from a third-party application that generates more than 30 files in CSV format every day. Each CSV file is between 50 and 70 MB in size.
The company uses Amazon Redshift Spectrum to run queries that select sets of columns. Users aggregate metrics based on daily orders. Recently, users have reported that the performance of the queries has degraded. A data engineer must resolve the performance issues for the queries.
Which combination of steps will meet this requirement with LEAST developmental effort? (Select TWO.)
A company manages an Amazon Redshift data warehouse. The data warehouse is in a public subnet inside a custom VPC A security group allows only traffic from within itself- An ACL is open to all traffic.
The company wants to generate several visualizations in Amazon QuickSight for an upcoming sales event. The company will run QuickSight Enterprise edition in a second AW5 account inside a public subnet within a second custom VPC. The new public subnet has a security group that allows outbound traffic to the existing Redshift cluster.
A data engineer needs to establish connections between Amazon Redshift and QuickSight. QuickSight must refresh dashboards by querying the Redshift cluster.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company loads transaction data for each day into Amazon Redshift tables at the end of each day. The company wants to have the ability to track which tables have been loaded and which tables still need to be loaded.
A data engineer wants to store the load statuses of Redshift tables in an Amazon DynamoDB table. The data engineer creates an AWS Lambda function to publish the details of the load statuses to DynamoDB.
How should the data engineer invoke the Lambda function to write load statuses to the DynamoDB table?
A company stores data from an application in an Amazon DynamoDB table that operates in provisioned capacity mode. The workloads of the application have predictable throughput load on a regular schedule. Every Monday, there is an immediate increase in activity early in the morning. The application has very low usage during weekends.
The company must ensure that the application performs consistently during peak usage times.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective way?
A gaming company uses AWS Glue to perform read and write operations on Apache Iceberg tables for real-time streaming data. The data in the Iceberg tables is stored in Apache Parquet format. The company is experiencing slow query performance.
Which solutions will improve query performance? (Select TWO)
A company has three subsidiaries. Each subsidiary uses a different data warehousing solution. The first subsidiary hosts its data warehouse in Amazon Redshift. The second subsidiary uses Teradata Vantage on AWS. The third subsidiary uses Google BigQuery.
The company wants to aggregate all the data into a central Amazon S3 data lake. The company wants to use Apache Iceberg as the table format.
A data engineer needs to build a new pipeline to connect to all the data sources, run transformations by using each source engine, join the data, and write the data to Iceberg.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?
A sales company uses AWS Glue ETL to collect, process, and ingest data into an Amazon S3 bucket. The AWS Glue pipeline creates a new file in the S3 bucket every hour. File sizes vary from 200 KB to 300 KB. The company wants to build a sales prediction model by using data from the previous 5 years. The historic data includes 44,000 files.
The company builds a second AWS Glue ETL pipeline by using the smallest worker type. The second pipeline retrieves the historic files from the S3 bucket and processes the files for downstream analysis. The company notices significant performance issues with the second ETL pipeline.
The company needs to improve the performance of the second pipeline.
Which solution will meet this requirement MOST cost-effectively?
A data engineer needs to build an extract, transform, and load (ETL) job. The ETL job will process daily incoming .csv files that users upload to an Amazon S3 bucket. The size of each S3 object is less than 100 MB.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
Files from multiple data sources arrive in an Amazon S3 bucket on a regular basis. A data engineer wants to ingest new files into Amazon Redshift in near real time when the new files arrive in the S3 bucket.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A data engineer needs to join data from multiple sources to perform a one-time analysis job. The data is stored in Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon S3.
Which solution will meet this requirement MOST cost-effectively?
A company needs to implement a new inventory management system that provides near real-time updates and visibility across all AWS Regions. The new solution must provide centralized access control over data access and permissions. The company has a separate inventory management team assigned to each Region. Each inventory management team needs to update inventory levels.
A data engineer must implement Amazon Redshift data sharing with write capabilities. The solution must follow the principle of least privilege.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company receives marketing campaign data from a vendor. The company ingests the data into an Amazon S3 bucket every 40 to 60 minutes. The data is in CSV format. File sizes are between 100 KB and 300 KB.
A data engineer needs to set-up an extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipeline to upload the content of each file to Amazon Redshift.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A data engineer is building a solution to detect sensitive information that is stored in a data lake across multiple Amazon S3 buckets. The solution must detect personally identifiable information (PII) that is in a proprietary data format.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A data engineer needs to build an enterprise data catalog based on the company's Amazon S3 buckets and Amazon RDS databases. The data catalog must include storage format metadata for the data in the catalog.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST effort?
A data engineer is processing a large amount of log data from web servers. The data is stored in an Amazon S3 bucket. The data engineer uses AWS services to process the data every day. The data engineer needs to extract specific fields from the raw log data and load the data into a data warehouse for analysis.
A hotel management company receives daily data files from each of its hotels. The company wants to upload its data to AWS. The company plans to use Amazon Athena to access the files. The company needs to protect the files from accidental deletion. The company will develop an application on its on-premises servers to automatically forward the files to a fully managed AWS ingestion service.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A data engineer needs to optimize the performance of a data pipeline that handles retail orders. Data about the orders is ingested daily into an Amazon S3 bucket.
The data engineer runs queries once each week to extract metrics from the orders data based on the order date for multiple date ranges. The data engineer needs an optimization solution that ensures the query performance will not degrade when the volume of data increases.
A company stores logs in an Amazon S3 bucket. When a data engineer attempts to access several log files, the data engineer discovers that some files have been unintentionally deleted.
The data engineer needs a solution that will prevent unintentional file deletion in the future.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST operational overhead?
A retail company is using an Amazon Redshift cluster to support real-time inventory management. The company has deployed an ML model on a real-time endpoint in Amazon SageMaker.
The company wants to make real-time inventory recommendations. The company also wants to make predictions about future inventory needs.
Which solutions will meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A data engineer needs to query data from multiple sources to generate an annual report. The analytics team uses Amazon Redshift for analysis. The data engineer needs to integrate Amazon Redshift data with 10 years of historical data from Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and RDS for MySQL. All the databases are in the same VPC. The data engineer needs a solution that provides seamless data integration with Amazon Redshift.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective way?
A company is building a data lake for a new analytics team. The company is using Amazon S3 for storage and Amazon Athena for query analysis. All data that is in Amazon S3 is in Apache Parquet format.
The company is running a new Oracle database as a source system in the company's data center. The company has 70 tables in the Oracle database. All the tables have primary keys. Data can occasionally change in the source system. The company wants to ingest the tables every day into the data lake.
Which solution will meet this requirement with the LEAST effort?
A financial company recently added more features to its mobile app. The new features required the company to create a new topic in an existing Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) cluster.
A few days after the company added the new topic, Amazon CloudWatch raised an alarm on the RootDiskUsed metric for the MSK cluster.
How should the company address the CloudWatch alarm?
A company has a production AWS account that runs company workloads. The company's security team created a security AWS account to store and analyze security logs from the production AWS account. The security logs in the production AWS account are stored in Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
The company needs to use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to deliver the security logs to the security AWS account.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company uses an organization in AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. The company uses an enhanced fanout data stream in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to receive streaming data from multiple producers. The data stream runs in Account A. The company wants to use an AWS Lambda function in Account B to process the data from the stream. The company creates a Lambda execution role in Account B that has permissions to access data from the stream in Account A.
What additional step must the company take to meet this requirement?
A company is developing an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances. Currently, the data that the application generates is temporary. However, the company needs to persist the data, even if the EC2 instances are terminated.
A data engineer must launch new EC2 instances from an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and configure the instances to preserve the data.
Which solution will meet this requirement?
A data engineer is building a data pipeline. A large data file is uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket once each day at unpredictable times. An AWS Glue workflow uses hundreds of workers to process the file and load the data into Amazon Redshift. The company wants to process the file as quickly as possible.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company is using an AWS Transfer Family server to migrate data from an on-premises environment to AWS. Company policy mandates the use of TLS 1.2 or above to encrypt the data in transit.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A company builds a new data pipeline to process data for business intelligence reports. Users have noticed that data is missing from the reports.
A data engineer needs to add a data quality check for columns that contain null values and for referential integrity at a stage before the data is added to storage.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A data engineer must orchestrate a data pipeline that consists of one AWS Lambda function and one AWS Glue job. The solution must integrate with AWS services.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST management overhead?
A company stores a 100 MB dataset in an Amazon S3 bucket as an Apache Parquet file. A data engineer needs to profile the data before performing data preparation steps on the data.
Which solution will meet this requirement in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company has a data lake in Amazon S3. The company collects AWS CloudTrail logs for multiple applications. The company stores the logs in the data lake, catalogs the logs in AWS Glue, and partitions the logs based on the year. The company uses Amazon Athena to analyze the logs.
Recently, customers reported that a query on one of the Athena tables did not return any data. A data engineer must resolve the issue.
Which combination of troubleshooting steps should the data engineer take? (Select TWO.)
A retail company needs to implement a solution to capture data updates from multiple Amazon Aurora MySQL databases. The company needs to make the updates available for analytics in near real time. The solution must be serverless and require minimal maintenance.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A data engineer needs to securely transfer 5 TB of data from an on-premises data center to an Amazon S3 bucket. Approximately 5% of the data changes every day. Updates to the data need to be regularly proliferated to the S3 bucket. The data includes files that are in multiple formats. The data engineer needs to automate the transfer process and must schedule the process to run periodically.
Which AWS service should the data engineer use to transfer the data in the MOST operationally efficient way?
A company implements a data mesh that has a central governance account. The company needs to catalog all data in the governance account. The governance account uses AWS Lake Formation to centrally share data and grant access permissions.
The company has created a new data product that includes a group of Amazon Redshift Serverless tables. A data engineer needs to share the data product with a marketing team. The marketing team must have access to only a subset of columns. The data engineer needs to share the same data product with a compliance team. The compliance team must have access to a different subset of columns than the marketing team needs access to.
Which combination of steps should the data engineer take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)
A company is designing a serverless data processing workflow in AWS Step Functions that involves multiple steps. The processing workflow ingests data from an external API, transforms the data by using multiple AWS Lambda functions, and loads the transformed data into Amazon DynamoDB.
The company needs the workflow to perform specific steps based on the content of the incoming data.
Which Step Functions state type should the company use to meet this requirement?
A financial services company stores financial data in Amazon Redshift. A data engineer wants to run real-time queries on the financial data to support a web-based trading application. The data engineer wants to run the queries from within the trading application.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?
A company processes 500 GB of audience and advertising data daily, storing CSV files in Amazon S3 with schemas registered in AWS Glue Data Catalog. They need to convert these files to Apache Parquet format and store them in an S3 bucket.
The solution requires a long-running workflow with 15 GiB memory capacity to process the data concurrently, followed by a correlation process that begins only after the first two processes complete.
A company currently stores all of its data in Amazon S3 by using the S3 Standard storage class.
A data engineer examined data access patterns to identify trends. During the first 6 months, most data files are accessed several times each day. Between 6 months and 2 years, most data files are accessed once or twice each month. After 2 years, data files are accessed only once or twice each year.
The data engineer needs to use an S3 Lifecycle policy to develop new data storage rules. The new storage solution must continue to provide high availability.
Which solution will meet these requirements in the MOST cost-effective way?
A company wants to migrate data from an Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL DB instance in the eu-east-1 Region of an AWS account named Account_A. The company will migrate the data to an Amazon Redshift cluster in the eu-west-1 Region of an AWS account named Account_B.
Which solution will give AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) the ability to replicate data between two data stores?
A data engineer must ingest a source of structured data that is in .csv format into an Amazon S3 data lake. The .csv files contain 15 columns. Data analysts need to run Amazon Athena queries on one or two columns of the dataset. The data analysts rarely query the entire file.
Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?
A company has an application that uses a microservice architecture. The company hosts the application on an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS) cluster.
The company wants to set up a robust monitoring system for the application. The company needs to analyze the logs from the EKS cluster and the application. The company needs to correlate the cluster's logs with the application's traces to identify points of failure in the whole application request flow.
Which combination of steps will meet these requirements with the LEAST development effort? (Select TWO.)
A company maintains an Amazon Redshift provisioned cluster that the company uses for extract, transform, and load (ETL) operations to support critical analysis tasks. A sales team within the company maintains a Redshift cluster that the sales team uses for business intelligence (BI) tasks.
The sales team recently requested access to the data that is in the ETL Redshift cluster so the team can perform weekly summary analysis tasks. The sales team needs to join data from the ETL cluster with data that is in the sales team's BI cluster.
The company needs a solution that will share the ETL cluster data with the sales team without interrupting the critical analysis tasks. The solution must minimize usage of the computing resources of the ETL cluster.
Which solution will meet these requirements?
A data engineer needs to use AWS Step Functions to design an orchestration workflow. The workflow must parallel process a large collection of data files and apply a specific transformation to each file.
Which Step Functions state should the data engineer use to meet these requirements?
A company that operates globally must follow regulations that require data from an AWS Region to be accessible only within that Region.
A data engineer is creating a data pipeline that will create resources in the Region where the data engineer works. The data pipeline should have access to data only from the Region where the data engineer works. The pipeline uses Active Directory as an identity and authentication system. The pipeline uses a custom identity broker application to verify that employees are signed in to Active Directory and to obtain temporary credentials by using the AssumeRole API operation.
Which solution will meet the locality requirements with the LEAST administrative effort?