SAA-C03 Q180 · Storage

Question

A company wants to create a long-term storage solution that will allow users to upload terabytes of images and videos. The company will use the images and videos to train machine learning (ML) models. The storage solution must be scalable and cost-optimized. Which solution will meet these requirements?

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Option B meets every requirement systematically:

1. **Long-term storage**: Amazon S3 is purpose-built for durable, long-term object storage with 99.999999999% (11 nines) durability.

2. **Terabytes of images and videos**: S3 has virtually unlimited storage capacity with no provisioning required. Individual objects can be up to 5 TB.

3. **Scalable**: S3 scales automatically — no capacity planning, no filesystem expansion needed.

4. **Cost-optimized**: S3 Intelligent-Tiering automatically moves data between access tiers (Frequent, Infrequent, Archive Instant, Archive, Deep Archive) based on access patterns. For ML training data that may be uploaded once and accessed intermittently during training cycles, this is ideal — you pay no retrieval fees for Frequent/Infrequent tiers, and the smal

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