ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question
An organization is re-architecting its two-tier web application for deployment on a public IaaS cloud. The stateless web front-end will scale out and in frequently, while customers upload images that must be retained for at least five years to satisfy regulatory legal-hold requirements. Operations wants the lowest storage cost and availability independent of any single virtual machine's life cycle. Which cloud storage strategy best meets these needs?
Use a distributed file system built on compute instances and mount it via NFS to web servers.
Attach a block-level persistent disk to every web server and configure daily snapshots to a remote region.
Place uploads in the provider's managed object storage service with lifecycle rules to transition objects to an archival tier after 30 days.
Store uploads on the virtual machine's ephemeral root volume attached to each web instance.
Managed object storage services are designed for high durability and availability that is independent of virtual machine lifetimes. By storing user uploads in object storage and applying lifecycle rules, the data stays immediately accessible, yet can be automatically moved to a lower-cost archival tier after a defined period, minimizing long-term expenses while still meeting the five-year retention requirement. Ephemeral instance volumes are lost when instances terminate, distributed file systems hosted on compute nodes inherit the underlying VM life cycle and are cost-inefficient at scale, and individual block-level disks plus snapshots introduce operational complexity and higher cost than object storage with lifecycle management.
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