SAA-C03 Q143 · Storage

Question

A company is creating a web application that will store a large number of images in Amazon S3. The images will be accessed by users over variable periods of time. The company wants to: Retain all the images. Incur no cost for retrieval. Have minimal management overhead. Have the images available with no impact on retrieval time. Which solution meets these requirements?

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**S3 Intelligent-Tiering** satisfies every requirement:

1. **Retain all images** → Intelligent-Tiering never deletes objects. It only moves them between access tiers automatically.

2. **No cost for retrieval** → This is the critical differentiator. S3 Intelligent-Tiering has **no retrieval fees** for any of its tiers (Frequent Access, Infrequent Access, Archive Instant Access). Unlike S3 Standard-IA or S3 One Zone-IA, which charge per-GB retrieval fees.

3. **Minimal management overhead** → Intelligent-Tiering is fully automated. You don't need to define lifecycle rules, analyze access patterns, or manually move objects. AWS monitors access patterns and moves objects between tiers automatically.

4. **No impact on retrieval time** → Objects in all Intelligent-Tiering tiers (Frequent, Inf

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