SAA-C03 Q23 · Storage

Question

A company has a business system that generates hundreds of reports each day. The business system saves the reports to a network share in CSV format. The company needs to store this data in the AWS Cloud in near-real time for analysis. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?

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Let's map each requirement to the solution:

**Requirement 1: Near-real time transfer to S3**
- S3 File Gateway presents an NFS/SMB network share to on-premises applications. When files are written to this share, they are **automatically and asynchronously uploaded to Amazon S3** — typically within seconds to minutes. This satisfies 'near-real time' without any scheduling or scripting.

**Requirement 2: Least administrative overhead**
- The business system already writes to a network share. With S3 File Gateway, you simply **change the mount point** to the gateway's share. No new scripts, no scheduled tasks, no API integrations, no custom automation workflows. The gateway handles the entire data movement lifecycle: local caching, upload, retry, and consistency.

**Requirement 3: CSV files

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