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Domain 2.2: Highly Available ArchitecturesS3ReplicationDisaster Recovery

AWS SAA-C03 · Question 28 · Domain 2.2: Highly Available Architectures

A media company stores critical video assets in an Amazon S3 bucket in the eu-west-1 region. To protect against regional disasters, the company wants to automatically copy all new objects to an S3 bucket in the us-east-1 region.<br/><br/>Which TWO actions must be taken to configure this? (Select TWO.)

Answer options:

A.

Enable S3 Versioning on both the source and destination buckets.

B.

Configure S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) on the source bucket.

C.

Enable S3 Object Lock on the destination bucket.

D.

Configure an AWS Lambda function to copy objects on the s3:ObjectCreated event.

E.

Set up AWS DataSync between the two buckets.

How to approach this question

Identify the native S3 feature for cross-region copying and its prerequisites.

Full Answer

Enable S3 Versioning on both the source and destination buckets.<br/>Configure S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) on the source bucket.
To use S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR), you must enable versioning on both the source and destination buckets. CRR automatically replicates data across AWS Regions.

Common mistakes

Forgetting that versioning is a mandatory prerequisite for S3 replication.

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