You have recently joined a startup company building sensors to measure street noise and air quality in urban
areas. The company has been running a pilot deployment of around 100 sensors for 3 months each sensor
uploads 1KB of sensor data every minute to a backend hosted on AWS. During the pilot, you measured a peak
or 10 IOPS on the database, and you stored an average of 3GB of sensor data per month in the database. The
current deployment consists of a load- balanced auto scaled Ingestion layer using EC2 instances and a
PostgreSQL RDS database with 500GB standard storage. The pilot is considered a success and your CEO has
managed to get the attention or some potential investors. The business plan requires a deployment of at least
100K sensors which needs to be supported by the backend. You also need to store sensor data for at least two
years to be able to compare year over year Improvements. To secure funding, you have to make sure that the
platform meets these requirements and leaves room for further scaling. Which setup win meet the
requirements?
A.
Add an SOS queue to the ingestion layer to buffer writes to the RDS instance
B.
Ingest data into a DynamoDB table and move old data to a Redshift cluster
C.
Replace the RDS instance with a 6 node Redshift cluster with 96TB of storage
D.
Keep the current architecture but upgrade RDS storage to 3TB and 10K provisioned IOPS
Explanation:
The POC solution is being scaled up by 1000, which means it will require 72TB of Storage to retain 24 months’
worth of data. This rules out RDS as a possible DB solution which leaves you with RedShift. I believe
DynamoDB is a more cost effective and scales better for ingest rather than using EC2 in an auto scaling group.
Also, this example solution from AWS is somewhat similar for reference.
http://media.amazonwebservices.com/architecturecenter/AWS_ac_ra_timeseriesprocessing_16.pdf
3GB x 24 months is 72 GB of data, not 72 TB.
Given 500 GB is enough for storage.
The real issue is consumption of data from 100K sensors. So we have to use SQS to buffer the DB write requests.
Option A should be correct answer
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you are mistaken,
POC is scaled by 1000 times (100,000 sensors, not 100),
so total data to be stored is 72TB, no GB.
SQS cannot store data more than 14 days and RDS cannot hold 72TB.
so B is the best option of the above.
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C:
72 TB storage is necessary if we scale by a factor of 1000.
Not A: There is no specific problem about the Writes
B seems good but it does not mention the storage size.
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