AWS Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 Practice Question

The media company should use Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering, because this storage class is designed for data with unknown or changing access patterns. It automatically moves data to the most cost-effective access tier without any performance impact or operational overhead. After 30 days of no access, objects move to a lower-cost tier that still provides millisecond retrieval, reducing ongoing storage costs while keeping the images instantly available.

Amazon S3 Standard is ideal for data that remains frequently accessed throughout its life and is more expensive if the access pattern becomes infrequent. Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access lowers storage cost but keeps data in a single Availability Zone, which most production workloads avoid. Amazon S3 Glacier is meant for archival data with retrieval times in minutes or hours, so it does not meet the immediate-access requirement.