AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 Practice Question
Your client's document management system is designed to handle confidential financial records. It requires that any records not accessed within a year be automatically purged to comply with internal data retention policies. How should you configure the storage service to meet this requirement?
Create a policy with a backup solution to discard backups of data which are beyond the specified retention period.
Set up a lifecycle configuration that automatically removes objects that have not been accessed for a prescribed period.
Activate a feature within the storage service that automatically shifts untouched files to a less expensive tier after a period of time.
Establish a lifecycle rule to transition objects to a deep archival storage class after a set period if they are not accessed.
A lifecycle policy on the storage service can be used to manage the lifecycle of objects, including the automatic deletion of objects based on certain conditions, such as the last time they were accessed. This aligns with the need to automatically purge documents that have not been accessed within a specific timeframe. Configuring a lifecycle policy to expire objects after a specified number of days since the last access will allow the client to comply with their data retention policies. The other options do not specifically meet the condition of the last access requirement, either because they are services that do not have automatic deletion based on access time or they are storage classes for archival, not automatic deletion.
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