A company has a large number of EBS snapshots that are kept for compliance purposes. They want to reduce the cost of storing these snapshots, as they are rarely accessed and only needed for disaster recovery. What is the MOST cost-effective solution?

Answer options:

Move the snapshots to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive.

Use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) to archive the snapshots to the EBS Snapshots Archive tier.

Convert the snapshots to AMIs and store them in S3 Standard-IA.

Change the volume type of the snapshots to Cold HDD (sc1).

How to approach this question

Identify the need to reduce EBS snapshot costs. AWS introduced the EBS Snapshots Archive tier for this specific purpose.

B.Use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) to archive the snapshots to the EBS Snapshots Archive tier.✓ Correct

Use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) to archive the snapshots to the EBS Snapshots Archive tier.

Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive is a low-cost storage tier to archive rarely accessed snapshots that do not need fast or frequent retrieval.

Trying to manually move snapshots to S3 Glacier, which is not a supported direct action.

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