Q13 — AWS SAA-C03 Ch.11

Question 13 of 100 | ← Chapter 11

Q713. A company has 5 PB of archived data on physical tapes. The company needs to preserve the data on the tapes for another 10 years for compliance purposes. The company wants to migrate to AWS in the next 6 months. The data center that stores the tapes has a 1 Gbps uplink internet connectivity.Which solution will meet these requirements MOST cost-effectively?

Correct Answer: C. Order multiple AWS Snowball devices that have Tape Gateway. Copy the physical tapes to virtual tapes in Snowball. Ship the Snowball devices to AWS. Create a lifecycle policy to move the tapes to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive.

Explanation

To meet the requirements of preserving 5 PB of archived data on physical tapes for another 10 years for compliance purposes, with a 1 Gbps uplink internet connectivity and the goal of being cost-effective, the recommended solution is:C. Order multiple AWS Snowball devices that have Tape Gateway. Copy the physical tapes to virtual tapes in Snowball. Ship the Snowball devices to AWS. Create a lifecycle policy to move the tapes to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive.Option C provides the most cost-effective solution for migrating the archived data to AWS:- Order multiple AWS Snowball devices with Tape Gateway: AWS Snowball is a data transfer service that uses secure, ruggedized devices to transfer large amounts of data offline. Snowball with Tape Gateway enables you to create virtual tapes that represent the data on your physical tapes, allowing you to migrate the data to the cloud.- Copy the physical tapes to virtual tapes in Snowball: Using the Tape Gateway functionality on the Snowball devices, you can read the data from the physical tapes and create virtual tapes that represent the same data. This process allows for the migration of the archived data to the cloud.- Ship the Snowball devices to AWS: Once the virtual tapes are created on the Snowball devices, they can be securely shipped to an AWS data center for ingestion into the cloud.- Create a lifecycle policy to move the tapes to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive: After the virtual tapes are imported into AWS, you can create a lifecycle policy to move the data from the virtual tapes to the long-term storage solution, such as Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive. This allows for cost-effective storage of the archived data for the required 10-year compliance period.Option A, reading the data from the tapes on premises and staging the data in a local NFS storage, introduces additional complexity and potential points of failure. It also requires a high-speed internet connection for the migration, which may not be cost-effective with a 1 Gbps uplink.Option B, using an on-premises backup application to write directly to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive, would require a high-speed internet connection for the migration, which may not be cost-effective with a 1 Gbps uplink. It also does not leverage the existing physical tapes.Option D, configuring an on-premises Tape Gateway and creating virtual tapes in the AWS Cloud, would require a high-speed internet connection for the migration, which may not be cost-effective with a 1 Gbps uplink. It also does not leverage the existing physical tapes.Therefore, the best solution to meet the requirements in a cost-effective manner is C: Order multiple AWS Snowball devices with Tape Gateway, copy the physical tapes to virtual tapes in Snowball, ship the Snowball devices to AWS, and create a lifecycle policy to move the tapes to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive. This solution allows for the migration of the data from the physical tapes to the cloud while leveraging the cost-effective storage options provided by Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive.