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AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate SOA-C03 Practice Question

A DevOps engineer maintains a CloudFormation stack that provisions an Amazon RDS DB instance plus hundreds of other resources. Management mandates that future stack updates must never delete or replace the existing database, while allowing normal updates to all other resources. The engineer wants a reusable, stack-level control that does not require changing the template for each release. Which approach meets these requirements?

  • Add the DeletionPolicy attribute set to Retain on the DB instance within the template.

  • Enable termination protection on the stack so the DB instance cannot be modified.

  • Attach a stack policy that explicitly denies Update:Replace and Delete actions on the DB instance's logical ID.

  • Run drift detection before every update and cancel the deployment if the DB instance is listed.

AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate SOA-C03
Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation
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