AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 Practice Question
A media company must move 50 TB of archival video content to AWS within 1 month. The footage will be accessed rarely, and retrieval times can be several hours. Which approach provides the most economical combination of data-transfer method and storage class?
Use AWS DataSync to copy the content into the S3 Standard storage class and configure an archival transition later.
Order an AWS Snowball Edge device to import the data into an S3 bucket with a 0-day lifecycle rule that moves the objects immediately to the S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class.
Establish a high-speed dedicated network connection (AWS Direct Connect) to upload the content directly into the S3 Standard storage class.
Upload the content over the public internet to the S3 Standard-IA storage class and then apply lifecycle rules to transition it to archival storage.
Ordering an AWS Snowball Edge device avoids the expense and time of sending 50 TB over the network. The device imports the data into an S3 bucket; a 0-day lifecycle rule immediately transitions the objects to the S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class, which is AWS's lowest-cost option for rarely accessed data. Direct Connect would incur high circuit fees for a one-time transfer, continual DataSync usage is priced per-GB, and uploading over the public internet may exceed the 1-month deadline and still involve higher S3 Standard charges before lifecycle transition.
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