An ivy-league university is assisting NASA to find potential landing sites for exploration vehicles of unmanned missions to our neighboring planets. The university uses High Performance Computing (HPC) driven application architecture to identify these landing sites.

Which of the following Amazon EC2 instance topologies should this application be deployed on?

A government agency is developing a online application to assist users in submitting permit requests through a web-based interface. The system architecture consists of a front-end web application tier and a background processing tier that handles the validation and submission of the forms. The application is expected to see high traffic and it must ensure that every submitted request is processed exactly once, with no loss of data.

Which design choice best satisfies these requirements?

An Electronic Design Automation (EDA) application produces massive volumes of data that can be divided into two categories. The 'hot data' needs to be both processed and stored quickly in a parallel and distributed fashion. The 'cold data' needs to be kept for reference with quick access for reads and updates at a low cost.

Which of the following AWS services is BEST suited to accelerate the aforementioned chip design process?

The engineering team at a Spanish professional football club has built a notification system for its website using Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notifications which are then handled by an AWS Lambda function for end-user delivery. During the off-season, the notification systems need to handle about 100 requests per second. During the peak football season, the rate touches about 5000 requests per second and it is noticed that a significant number of the notifications are not being delivered to the end-users on the website.

As a solutions architect, which of the following would you suggest as the BEST possible solution to this issue?

A file-hosting service uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) under the hood to power its storage offerings. Currently all the customer files are uploaded directly under a single Amazon S3 bucket. The engineering team has started seeing scalability issues where customer file uploads have started failing during the peak access hours with more than 5000 requests per second.

Which of the following is the MOST resource efficient and cost-optimal way of addressing this issue?