AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Question 310

A company wants durable storage for static content and infinitely scalable data storage infrastructure at the lowest cost.

Which AWS service should the company choose?

Answer options

• A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
• B. Amazon S3
• C. AWS Storage Gateway
• D. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Amazon S3 is designed for 99.999999999% durability and offers virtually unlimited storage capacity for static files at a very low cost. In contrast, Amazon EBS and Amazon EFS are block and file storage services meant for EC2 instances and are significantly more expensive. AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service, which is not designed for direct, low-cost static content hosting.