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Domain 4.2: New Architecture DesignArchitectureIoTMigration

AWS SAP-C02 · Question 61 · Domain 4.2: New Architecture Design

A company is migrating a large-scale IoT application to AWS. Millions of devices send telemetry data via MQTT. The data needs to be ingested, filtered, and routed to Amazon S3 for long-term storage and to Amazon DynamoDB for real-time dashboarding. The architecture must be fully managed and scale automatically to handle millions of concurrent connections. Which AWS service should act as the primary entry point for the devices?

Answer options:

A.

AWS IoT Core

B.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

C.

Amazon API Gateway with WebSockets

D.

Amazon MQ

How to approach this question

Identify the AWS service specifically built for MQTT and massive device connectivity.

Full Answer

A.AWS IoT Core✓ Correct
AWS IoT Core is a managed cloud service that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. It natively supports the MQTT protocol and can scale to support billions of devices and trillions of messages. The AWS IoT Rules Engine allows you to evaluate inbound messages and route them to AWS services like Amazon S3 and Amazon DynamoDB without writing custom code.

Common mistakes

Choosing Kinesis, which is for data streaming but lacks native MQTT device connection management.

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