SAP-C02 Practice Question: Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization
A company is migrating a critical application to AWS. The migration plan includes a pilot light strategy. The company has set up a small replica of the environment in AWS. During a disaster, the company wants to quickly provision the full production environment. Which AWS service is best suited for this purpose?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation is the best service for this scenario because it allows you to define the entire infrastructure as code in templates, which can be stored and then quickly executed to provision the full production environment during a disaster. This aligns with the pilot light strategy, where a small replica is already running and CloudFormation can rapidly scale it up. Option A (OpsWorks) is wrong because it is configuration management service for Chef/Puppet, not for quickly provisioning full environments. Option B (Elastic Beanstalk) is wrong because it is designed for deploying web applications, not for provisioning custom infrastructure. Option D (CodeDeploy) is wrong because it handles application deployments, not infrastructure provisioning.
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Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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AWS OpsWorks
Why it's wrong here
OpsWorks is for configuration management, not quick provisioning.
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Why it's wrong here
Elastic Beanstalk is for web applications, not full infrastructure.
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AWS CloudFormation
Why this is correct
CloudFormation templates can quickly launch the full environment.
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AWS CodeDeploy
Why it's wrong here
CodeDeploy deploys application code, not infrastructure.
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