A company wants to utilize AWS storage.
For them, low storage cost is paramount.
The data is rarely retrieved and a data retrieval time of 13-14 hours is acceptable for them.
What is the best storage option to use?
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A. B. C. D.Answer - B.
S3 Glacier Deep Archive offers the lowest cost storage in the cloud, at prices lower than storing and maintaining data in on-premises magnetic tape libraries or archiving data offsite.
It expands our data archiving offerings, enabling you to select the optimal storage class based on storage and retrieval costs, and retrieval times.
Option B is correct because S3 Glacier Deep Archive offers low-cost storage and retrieval time doesn't matter for the company.
If the question asks for fast retrieval time then S3 Glacier would be correct.
Option A is incorrect because S3 Glacier is not cheaper than S3 Glacier Deep Archive.
Options C and D are incorrect because they are not suitable for data archive and faster retrieval.
Also, the CloudFront is not for storage.
With S3 Glacier, customers can store their data cost-effectively for months, years, or even decades.
S3 Glacier enables customers to offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling storage to AWS, so they don't have to worry about capacity planning, hardware provisioning, data replication, hardware failure detection, and recovery, or time-consuming hardware migrations.
Amazon S3 Glacier for archiving data that might infrequently need to be restored within a few hours.
S3 Glacier Deep Archive for archiving long-term backup cycle data that might infrequently need to be restored within 12 hours.
Storage class Expedited Standard Bulk.
Amazon S3 Glacier.
1-5 minutes.
3-5 hours.
5-12 hours.
S3 Glacier Deep Archive.
Not available.
Within 12 hours.
Within 48 hours.
Reference:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonglacier/latest/dev/introduction.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/backup-recovery/amazon-s3-glacier.html https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/For a company that prioritizes low storage cost and has data that is rarely retrieved, the best storage option would be Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive (option B).
Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive is designed for long-term data archiving that can be stored for several years. It is the lowest-cost storage option available in AWS, charging $0.00099 per GB per month, with no retrieval fees. The trade-off for this low cost is a long retrieval time, which in this case is acceptable for the company, with a retrieval time of 12-48 hours.
Amazon S3 Glacier (option A) is also a suitable option for long-term archiving with lower retrieval times of 3-5 hours. However, the cost of S3 Glacier is higher than S3 Glacier Deep Archive, with storage fees of $0.004 per GB per month, and retrieval fees varying based on retrieval speed and frequency.
Amazon EBS volumes (option C) are block-level storage volumes designed for high-performance and low-latency workloads. They are not suitable for long-term archiving, and the cost of storage is higher than S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive.
AWS CloudFront (option D) is a content delivery network service used for delivering static and dynamic web content, including videos, images, and applications. It is not a storage option, and it is not designed for long-term data archiving.
Therefore, option B, Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive, is the best storage option for a company that prioritizes low storage cost, with data that is rarely retrieved, and a long retrieval time of 13-14 hours is acceptable.