Question 230
During a regulated workload modernization proposal, the decisive constraint is: An application retries failing synchronous dependencies indefinitely and causes cascading timeouts. Which recommendation best addresses the actual bottleneck?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Configure bounded timeouts, jittered retries and circuit breakers. Controlled retry budgets prevent retry storms and resource exhaustion.
Incorrect Answers
Enable an appropriate database Multi-AZ deployment and test failover would address a different requirement: A busy database suffers one-AZ outages that require manual restore from nightly snapshots. Multi-AZ synchronous standby provides operational recovery faster than backup-only restore.
This alternative, Introduce an SQS or Kinesis buffering tier with backpressure-aware consumers, is appropriate when A core ingestion pipeline must buffer high-frequency writes during temporary database throttling. Buffering separates producer availability from short periods of downstream saturation.
For the separate situation An ALB serves three AZs but all Auto Scaling instances run in one AZ, Spread Auto Scaling capacity and target health across the supported load-balancer AZs could be useful. Multi-AZ frontend alone does not protect a single-AZ application fleet.