AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 362

A company is planning to move data backups to the AWS Cloud. The company needs to replace on-premises storage with storage that is cloud-based but locally cached.

Which AWS service meets these requirements?

Answer options

• A. AWS Storage Gateway
• B. AWS Snowcone
• C. AWS Backup
• D. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

Correct answer: A

Explanation

AWS Storage Gateway connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless integration with data security features, offering a local cache for low-latency access to frequently used data. AWS Backup is used for automating and centralizing backups across AWS services, while Amazon EFS provides cloud-native elastic file systems. AWS Snowcone is a physical edge computing and data transfer device, which does not serve as a continuous local caching storage replacement.