A media company stores petabytes of video archives in Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive. They receive a legal request to place a 'legal hold' on a specific set of archives, ensuring they cannot be deleted or modified by anyone, including the root user, until the hold is lifted. How should this be implemented?

Answer options:

Use S3 Object Lock in Governance mode.

Use S3 Object Lock in Compliance mode.

Create an SCP denying the s3:DeleteObject action.

Enable AWS Backup Vault Lock.

How to approach this question

Identify the S3 feature for immutable storage.

Full Answer

B.Use S3 Object Lock in Compliance mode.✓ Correct

Amazon S3 Object Lock in Compliance mode provides WORM storage. It prevents any user, including the AWS account root user, from deleting or modifying the object until the retention period expires or the legal hold is removed.

Common mistakes

Choosing Governance mode, which is not strict enough for legal holds against administrators.

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