AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Question 316

What does the Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class offer?

Answer options

• A. Payment flexibility by reserving storage capacity
• B. Long-term retention of data by copying the data to an encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume
• C. Automatic cost savings by moving objects between tiers based on access pattern changes
• D. Secure, durable, and lowest cost storage for data archival

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering automatically optimizes storage costs by shifting objects between access tiers when access patterns fluctuate, requiring no manual intervention. Reserving capacity is related to other billing models, while Amazon EBS is block storage and not used for S3 retention. S3 Glacier Deep Archive, rather than Intelligent-Tiering, provides the absolute lowest-cost storage specifically for long-term data archiving.