A gaming company stores user data (geographic location, player data, leaderboards) in Amazon DynamoDB. The company needs continuous backups to an Amazon S3 bucket with minimal coding. Backups must not affect application availability or the table's read capacity units (RCUs). Which solution meets these requirements?
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Correct answer: Export the data directly from DynamoDB to Amazon S3 with continuous backups. Turn on point-in-time recovery for the table..
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The correct solution is to export the data directly from DynamoDB to Amazon S3 with continuous backups and turn on point-in-time recovery (PITR). DynamoDB's built-in export to S3 feature allows for a full export of a table to S3 without consuming read capacity units or impacting application availability. Combining this with PITR provides continuous backups, enabling recovery to any point in time within the last 35 days. This approach requires minimal coding and meets all specified requirements. Using an Amazon EMR cluster with
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