Question 381 · 712 in bank
A company stores a large amount of data that auditors access only twice each year. Which Amazon S3 storage class should the company use to store the data with the LOWEST cost?
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Answer: B
Explanation
B. Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval - lowest cost for infrequent access, but fast retrieval S3 Intelligent-Tiering is the recommended storage class for data with unknown, changing, or unpredictable access patterns, independent of object size or retention period, such as data lakes, data analytics, and new applications. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/intelligent-tiering.html#:~:text=The%20S3%20Intelligent-Tiering%20storage%20class%20supports%20all%20Amazon,endpoint%20in%20a%20virtual%20private%20%20cloud%20%28VPC%29
Source: Adapted from community discussion — Yak_Yeti