AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate DEA-C01 Practice Question
A data engineer manages a Lambda function that pulls data from a partner's SFTP server and writes the files to Amazon S3. The function must run automatically at 02:30 UTC every day, must not rely on any always-running servers, and the schedule must be changeable through infrastructure-as-code templates. Which solution meets these requirements most cost-effectively?
Create an Amazon EventBridge rule with the cron expression "30 2 * * ? *" that targets the Lambda function.
Design an AWS Step Functions state machine that waits 24 hours in a loop before invoking the Lambda function.
Launch an always-on EC2 instance running a cron job that calls the Lambda invoke API at 02:30 UTC.
Configure an AWS Batch scheduled job that runs at 02:30 UTC and executes a container which calls the Lambda function.
An Amazon EventBridge scheduled rule is a fully managed, serverless scheduler that can trigger AWS services, including Lambda, by using cron or rate expressions. Creating a rule with the cron expression cron(30 2 * * ? *) invokes the Lambda function once each day at 02:30 UTC. EventBridge Scheduler provides 14 million invocations per month at no charge and then costs about $1 per million invocations, making the cost of one daily trigger effectively negligible. The other options either keep compute resources running continuously (EC2), add an intermediate container layer (AWS Batch), or introduce additional orchestration components and potential per-state charges after the free tier (Step Functions), so they are less cost-effective for this simple daily task.
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