AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 Practice Question
A healthcare company needs to architect its cloud-based infrastructure to maintain patient data strictly within the national borders due to legal mandates concerning data residency. When determining where to host their compute and storage resources, what should the company consider to remain compliant?
Select a data center location offered by the cloud provider that is geographically situated within the nation.
Leverage a content distribution service to manage the distribution of data across regional edge locations.
Distribute resources across several data centers that are in close proximity to the country's borders.
Incorporate on-premises hardware extensions provided by the cloud provider to handle in-country processing.
Selecting a cloud provider's data center that is located within the specific country ensures that data residency requirements are met, as every data center resides in a specific geographic area. This directly addresses data sovereignty laws mandating that sensitive data remain within national borders. Utilizing multiple data centers within proximity does not guarantee compliance with specified geographic limitations. Implementing on-premises hardware extensions offered by cloud providers, while potentially useful for low-latency or local processing needs, may not provide the same compliance guarantees as data centers explicitly located in the country. A content delivery network can expedite the delivery of content within a region but does not pertain to the storage and residency of data.
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