SAA-C03 Q701 · Storage

Question

A company hosts an application on AWS and has generated approximately 2.5 TB of data over 12 years. The data is stored on Amazon EBS volumes. The company wants a cost-effective backup solution for long-term storage and must be able to retrieve the data within minutes for audits. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Accepted Answer

**Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval** is the correct answer because it satisfies all three requirements:

1. **Cost-effective for long-term storage**: S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval costs approximately $0.0036/GB/month (US East), making it extremely affordable for 2.5 TB of archival data (~$9/month). This is significantly cheaper than EBS snapshots or EFS.

2. **Long-term backup**: S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval is specifically designed for archival/backup use cases where data is infrequently accessed but needs to be retained for years.

3. **Retrieve within minutes**: This is the critical differentiator. S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval offers **Expedited retrievals** that return data in **1-5 minutes**. It also offers Standard (3-5 hours) and Bulk (5-12 hours) retrieval options. The 'withi

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