SAA-C03 Q549 · Migration

Question

A company stores 5 PB of archived data on physical tapes. The company needs to preserve the data for another 10 years. The data center that stores the tapes has a 10 Gbps Direct Connect connection to an AWS Region. The company wants to migrate the data to AWS within the next 6 months. Which solution will meet these requirements?

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**Option D** uses AWS Storage Gateway Tape Gateway, which is purpose-built for this exact scenario:

1. **Tape-native workflow**: Tape Gateway presents virtual tape infrastructure (Virtual Tape Library - VTL) to existing backup software. The company's existing backup applications can treat it exactly like a physical tape library — no workflow changes needed.

2. **Leverages 10 Gbps Direct Connect**: The Tape Gateway appliance runs on-premises and streams data through the existing Direct Connect connection. At 10 Gbps, theoretical max transfer = ~10 Gbps × 6 months ≈ 19.4 PB. Even at 50% utilization, that's ~9.7 PB — well above the 5 PB requirement.

3. **S3 Glacier Deep Archive**: Archived data kept for 10 years with no mention of frequent access makes Deep Archive the ideal storage class

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