A company wants to migrate their on-premises file shares to AWS. They have 50 TB of data. The data must be accessible via the SMB protocol by on-premises Windows servers with low latency. Which THREE actions should the architect take to design this hybrid storage solution? (Select THREE)

Answer options:

A.

Migrate the data to Amazon EFS.

B.

Migrate the data to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server.

C.

Use AWS Transfer Family to provide SMB access.

D.

Deploy AWS Storage Gateway File Gateway on-premises.

E.

Use AWS Snowmobile to transfer the data.

F.

Use AWS DataSync to migrate the initial 50 TB of data over AWS Direct Connect.

G.

Deploy Amazon S3 File Gateway.

How to approach this question

Identify the SMB storage service, the local caching appliance, and the migration tool.

Full Answer

B, D, F

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides native SMB. AWS Storage Gateway (specifically Amazon FSx File Gateway) deployed on-premises provides low-latency local caching. AWS DataSync is used to perform the initial 50TB migration efficiently.

Common mistakes

Choosing EFS, which does not support SMB.

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