S3 Quiz
You work for a company that stores records for a minimum of 10 years. Most of these records will never be accessed but must be made available upon request (within a few hours). What is the most cost-effective storage option in this scenario? Choose the correct answer from the options below.
A.
Simple Storage Service
B.
EBS Volumes
C.
Glacier
D.
AWS Import/Export
C. Glacier
Amazon Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. Customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.004 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions. To keep costs low yet suitable for varying retrieval needs, Amazon Glacier provides three options for access to archives, from a few minutes to several hours.
For more information on Amazon Glacier, please refer to the link below.
https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/
