PAS-C01 Operations and Maintenance Practice Question
An SAP system is deployed across multiple Availability Zones using an Application Load Balancer. The operations team wants to perform a blue/green deployment of a new SAP application version with zero downtime. Which AWS service should be used?
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Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports blue/green deployments. Option B (CloudFormation) is for infrastructure management. Option C (CodeDeploy) can do blue/green but is more complex and less integrated for SAP. Option D (OpsWorks) is for Chef/Puppet management.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Why this is correct
Elastic Beanstalk supports blue/green deployments with environment swapping.
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AWS CloudFormation
Why it's wrong here
CloudFormation is for infrastructure as code, not deployments.
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AWS CodeDeploy
Why it's wrong here
CodeDeploy can perform blue/green but requires more configuration.
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AWS OpsWorks
Why it's wrong here
OpsWorks is for configuration management, not blue/green.
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