PAS-C01 Design of SAP Workloads on AWS Practice Question
An SAP system administrator needs to ensure that all SAP application logs are centrally collected and monitored for errors. Which AWS service should they use to aggregate logs from multiple EC2 instances?
⚠ Common exam trap
It's easy for candidates to confuse Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose as a direct log collector, but it requires a separate data producer and is not an agent-based aggregation service like CloudWatch Logs.
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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Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Amazon CloudWatch Logs is the correct service because it provides a centralized, agent-based log aggregation solution. The CloudWatch Logs agent (or unified CloudWatch agent) can be installed on each EC2 instance to automatically collect, encrypt, and stream SAP application logs to a central CloudWatch Logs group. This allows the administrator to monitor logs in real time, set metric filters for error patterns, and trigger alarms without needing to build custom infrastructure.
Answer analysis
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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Amazon S3 with server access logs
Why it's wrong here
S3 stores logs but does not provide real-time monitoring or easy aggregation from multiple instances.
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Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Why it's wrong here
Kinesis Data Firehose can deliver logs to destinations but is not the primary service for log aggregation.
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Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Why this is correct
CloudWatch Logs with the unified CloudWatch agent can collect and aggregate logs from multiple EC2 instances.
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AWS Lambda to process logs from each instance
Why it's wrong here
Lambda can process logs but does not natively aggregate them into a central location.
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