CLF-C02 Question 222
Single answerA company is looking for a scalable and cost-effective solution to store backups of their application logs, archived documents, and static website assets. Which of the following scenarios best aligns with the use of object storage in AWS?
- A
Storing and versioning archived application logs that need to be accessed infrequently
- B
Hosting a relational database for their transactional data
- C
Running machine learning models that require low-latency access to data
- D
Deploying and running containerized applications
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
Amazon S3, the primary object storage service in AWS, is designed for storing unstructured data like backups, logs, and static assets. It is scalable, durable, and cost-effective, particularly for infrequently accessed data. The other options involve workloads that require different AWS services, such as relational databases or machine learning models, which are not suitable use cases for object storage.
- A. Correct.
Object storage, such as Amazon S3, is ideal for storing archived logs as it is highly durable, scalable, and cost-effective for infrequent access use cases.
- B. Incorrect.
Relational databases require a database service like Amazon RDS, not object storage. Object storage is not optimized for transactional workloads.
- C. Incorrect.
Machine learning workloads require low-latency, high-performance storage like Amazon EBS or FSx, rather than object storage.
- D. Incorrect.
Running containerized applications involves services like Amazon ECS or EKS, which are unrelated to object storage.