AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate DEA-C01 Practice Question
A company ingests about 5 TB of semi-structured application logs into Amazon S3 each day, stored in compressed Parquet files. Data analysts need to run interactive ad-hoc SQL queries from BI tools with response times of seconds. The operations team wants to avoid provisioning or managing clusters and prefers a pay-per-query pricing model that automatically scales for bursts of concurrent users. Which AWS storage platform best meets these requirements?
Use Amazon Athena to query the Parquet data directly in Amazon S3.
Store each day's logs in a DynamoDB table and analyze them with PartiQL.
Load the data into an Amazon Redshift RA3 cluster and query it with Redshift Spectrum.
Import the data into an Amazon Aurora MySQL cluster and use federated queries on Parquet files.
Amazon Athena is a serverless query service that directly queries data stored in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Because it is serverless, there are no clusters to provision or manage, and charges accrue only for the amount of data scanned by each query, satisfying the pay-per-query requirement. Athena automatically scales to support many concurrent users and typically returns results in seconds for interactive workloads.
Amazon Redshift RA3 clusters provide fast analytics but require cluster management and incur hourly node charges independent of query volume. Redshift Spectrum still incurs those cluster costs. Amazon Aurora MySQL and Amazon DynamoDB are operational databases; they do not natively query large Parquet datasets in S3 and are not priced per query for analytics, making them less suitable for this scenario.
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