Q52 — AWS SAA-C03 Ch.10

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Q652. A company maintains about 300 TB m Amazon S3 Standard storage month after month. The S3 objects are each typically around 50 GB m size and are frequently replaced with multipart uploads by their global application. The number and size of S3 objects remain constant but the company's S3 storage costs are increasing each month.How should a solutions architect reduce costs in this situation?

Correct Answer: B. Enable an S3 Lifecycle policy that deletes incomplete multipart uploads

Explanation

To reduce costs in a situation where a company maintains about 300 TB of data in Amazon S3 Standard storage month after month, and the storage costs are increasing each month, the most suitable solution would be:B. Enable an S3 Lifecycle policy that deletes incomplete multipart uploads.Here's the rationale behind this solution:Option B: Enable an S3 Lifecycle policy that deletes incomplete multipart uploads. In this scenario, the company frequently replaces S3 objects with multipart uploads. If the multipart uploads are left incomplete and not finalized, they continue to incur storage costs without providing any value. By enabling an S3 Lifecycle policy that deletes incomplete multipart uploads, the company can automatically clean up these incomplete uploads and reduce the storage costs associated with them. This helps optimize costs by eliminating unnecessary storage usage.Option A: Switch from multipart uploads to Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration. Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration is a feature that optimizes data transfers to and from Amazon S3 by utilizing Amazon CloudFront's globally distributed edge locations. While it can improve transfer speeds, it does not directly address the issue of increasing storage costs. The issue lies with the storage of large objects, not the transfer of data.Option C: Configure S3 inventory to prevent objects from being archived too quickly. S3 inventory provides a list of objects and their metadata for a bucket, which can be useful for auditing and data management purposes. However, it does not directly address the issue of increasing storage costs. The focus should be on managing and reducing the storage usage itself.Option D: Configure Amazon CloudFront to reduce the number of objects stored in Amazon S3. Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that can help improve the delivery of content to end users. While it can offload some of the traffic from S3, it does not directly reduce the number of objects stored in S3 or address the increasing storage costs.Therefore, the most suitable solution that addresses the issue of increasing storage costs is to enable an S3 Lifecycle policy that deletes incomplete multipart uploads (Option B). This helps ensure that incomplete multipart uploads do not accumulate and incur unnecessary storage costs, thus optimizing the storage usage and reducing expenses.