AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Topic 1 Question 778

Question

A data analytics company has 80 offices that are distributed globally. Each office hosts 1 PB of data and has between 1 and 2 Gbps of internet bandwidth. The company needs to perform a one-time migration of a large amount of data from its offices to Amazon S3. The company must complete the migration within 4 weeks. Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: B. The correct answer is B. Option B: Use multiple AWS Snowball Edge storage-optimized devices to store and transfer the data to Amazon S3. Amazon S3 provides durable, scalable object storage that is fully managed. AWS Snowball physically ships data to AWS, ideal when bandwidth is limited or data is very large. This option delivers the requirement at the lowest cost.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 — Question 778