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    PracticeAWS Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C02)AWS Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 Practice Exam 7Question 14
    Easy1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 3.5: Cost OptimizationCost OptimizationS3

    AWS SAP-C02 · Question 14 · Domain 3.5: Cost Optimization

    A company is evaluating its AWS bill and notices high costs associated with Amazon S3. They have petabytes of data stored in the S3 Standard storage class. Access patterns vary wildly; some objects are accessed daily, while others haven't been accessed in years. The company wants to optimize costs with the LEAST operational overhead. What should they do?

    Answer options:

    A.

    Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition objects older than 30 days to S3 Glacier Deep Archive.

    B.

    Use S3 Storage Lens to identify unused objects and manually delete them.

    C.

    Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition all objects to the S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class.

    D.

    Transition all data to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA).

    How to approach this question

    Identify the S3 storage class designed for unknown or changing access patterns.

    Full Answer

    C.Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition all objects to the S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class.✓ Correct
    Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition all objects to the S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class.
    S3 Intelligent-Tiering is designed to optimize costs by automatically moving data to the most cost-effective access tier based on access frequency, without performance impact or retrieval fees.

    Common mistakes

    Choosing Standard-IA, which can be expensive if access patterns are unpredictable.
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