Exam AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 topic 1 question 51 discussion

You can use SES to format the report in HTML. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/send-email-formatted.html

B&D are the only 2 correct options. If you are choosing option E then you missed the daily morning schedule requirement mentioned in the question which cant be achieved with S3 events for SNS. Event Bridge can used to configure scheduled events (every morning in this case). Option B fulfills the email in HTML format requirement (by SES) and D fulfills every morning schedule event requirement (by EventBridge)

D Explanation: EventBridge can be used to schedule regular invocations of a Lambda function that retrieves the required data from the application's API. This step sets up the process to collect the data at the specified time every morning. B Explanation: Amazon SES can format the data into an easy-to-read HTML report and send the email to multiple recipients efficiently.

SNS & Glue

BC - Question says extract the data - which is the job of AWS Glue and then invoke SES endpoint to send email. SES support html format. But BD also seems possible.

Defo B and D Look at the aws notes on Sns Notes You can't customize the body of the email message. The email delivery feature is intended to provide internal system alerts, not marketing messages. It can't send anything but notifications. SES can send normal emails therefore, BD is the answer.

Option B suggests using Amazon SES, which allows you to format the data and email the report to multiple recipients in an efficient and scalable way. Option E proposes storing application data in Amazon S3, which is scalable and durable storage. By configuring an Amazon SNS topic as an S3 event destination, you can automatically trigger the report to be sent via email whenever new data is added to S3.

Chat GPT says : With Amazon SES, you can send rich, formatted email content, including text, HTML, attachments, and embedded images, suitable for email communication. Amazon SNS is primarily used for sending plain-text or JSON-formatted messages, suitable for notifications and alerts across different channels. This can suggest that we need to use SES if we want to use HTML content.

Answer: B and D Other options A. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose: This service is typically used for real-time streaming data processing rather than for scheduled tasks like generating a morning report. C. Amazon EventBridge to invoke an AWS Glue job: AWS Glue is a data integration service that's more focused on ETL (extract, transform, load) operations, often involving large datasets and complex transformations, which might be more than needed for this scenario. E. Amazon S3 with SNS topic: Storing data in S3 and using SNS for notification is viable, but this doesn't directly address the need to format the data into HTML and send it as an email report. SNS is better suited for sending notifications rather than formatted reports.

Very detailed question so let's break it down: "send the report to several email addresses at the same time every morning" this locks B as nothing else can do it. A: Firehose to collect data from API will work but it cannot generate a report C: Glue is ETL, it cannot extract data from an API E: Store data in S3. No idea what this will help with The API provides order shipping data so you can query it. Lambda can be used to query the API easily so D is good choice that works with B. BD is correct combination

"At the same time every morning" requires scheduling, which is only mentioned in C and D. AWS Glue has no native functionality to query REST APIs, thus we need a Lambda function -> D. For email we need SES or SNS, but as we want "an easy-to-read HTML format", SNS is out. SNS can send notifications, not formatted emails. Thus B.

I think there is a problem with the answer. It should be that ses sends the email processed by lambda.

Key: retrieval by a REST API, that's why use lambda

Both SES and SNS can format html, but there is a disconnection between B and D. Where do you store the data between the steps?

the reason why "B" is more correct than "E" is because is more simple and you don't have to store data is not what they want, also SES is a service that is meant for sending the data through email, and is exactly what the company wants. is not the first time the admin is wrong with the answer

E should be correct: https://saturncloud.io/blog/how-to-send-html-mails-using-amazon-sns/

Create an Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) scheduled event that invokes an AWS Lambda function to query the application's API for the data. Then use Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to format the data and to send the report by email.