AIP-C01 practice question: Hybrid and edge GenAI for data residency (Outposts, Wavelength, Local Zones)
Implementation and Integration A free question from our original AIP-C01 practice exam. Try it, then open the answer to see why each option is right or wrong.
A manufacturing company inspects finished parts with cameras on its factory floor. Photos of the parts are subject to a customer contract that forbids them from leaving the plant's network.
The company wants a generative model that writes a short inspection note from each photo, and each note must appear within two seconds. The plant has a small server room and a reliable link to AWS for dashboards and reporting. Plant managers want the notes to appear on the line terminals, so the design must also work when the internet link is down.
Which solution meets these requirements?
Choose one answer.
AA. Install an AWS Outposts rack in the plant, and run an open-weight vision model on GPU instances in the rack that the line terminals call locally.
BB. Upload each photo to an Amazon S3 bucket in the nearest AWS Region over the plant's VPN, and call Amazon Bedrock from a Lambda function in that Region.
CC. Deploy the model in an AWS Wavelength Zone in the nearest telecom network, so that the photos travel only over the carrier's private 5G network.
DD. Use Amazon Bedrock with a geographic cross-Region inference profile for the plant's country, so that processing stays within that country's Regions.
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Answer: A
A. Right: Outposts runs AWS infrastructure on premises, so the photos and the model stay inside the plant network. GPU instances in the rack can meet the two-second note target while the reporting link carries only summaries. Learn more: AWS Outposts (opens in a new tab)
B. Wrong: Every photo would still leave the plant network and travel to a Region, which breaks the contract. A VPN protects the traffic in transit but does not keep the data inside the plant.
C. Wrong: Wavelength reduces latency for mobile devices, but the photos still leave the factory and cross a carrier network. That does not meet a rule that the photos never leave the plant network.
D. Wrong: A geographic profile keeps processing in one country, which meets a country residency rule. The contract, however, requires the photos to stay inside the plant network, and this design sends them to a Region.
Explanation
Outposts brings AWS infrastructure into the plant, so the photos and the model stay on the local network while the company still reports to AWS. Designs that send photos to a Region, a Wavelength Zone or a country profile all move the images outside the plant, which the contract forbids.
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