AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Topic 1 Question 583

Question

A company has 5 PB of archived data on physical tapes. The company needs to preserve the data on the tapes for another 10 years for compliance purposes. The company wants to migrate to AWS in the next 6 months. The data center that stores the tapes has a 1 Gbps uplink internet connectivity. Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: C. The correct answer is C. Option C: Order multiple AWS Snowball devices that have Tape Gateway. Copy the physical tapes to virtual tapes in Snowball. Ship the Snowball devices to AWS. Create a lifecycle policy to move the tapes to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep... S3 Glacier Deep Archive is the lowest-cost storage for long-term archival with retrieval in hours. Amazon S3 Glacier offers low-cost archival storage for infrequently accessed data. Amazon S3 provides durable, scalable object storage that is fully managed. This option delivers the requirement at the lowest cost.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Question 583