ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question

Ephemeral (instance-attached) disks are designed for short-lived, stateless compute nodes; their contents are lost when the VM is stopped or terminated, making them ideal for disposable, auto-scaled web tiers. Databases that require fine-grained control over the file system benefit from raw or block storage devices, which expose a virtual disk the guest OS can format and manage directly. Compliance audit logs that must be kept for many years belong on long-term (archival/object) storage, which is engineered for durability at a lower cost per gigabyte. Other answer options either assign non-persistent storage to data that must survive (risking data loss), place long-term data on costlier block storage, or use object storage for databases where block-level semantics are required; therefore, they are incorrect.