AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 490

Which AWS solution gives companies the ability to use protocols such as NFS to store and retrieve objects in Amazon S3?

Answer options

• A. Amazon FSx for Lustre
• B. AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway
• C. AWS Storage Gateway file gateway
• D. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

Correct answer: C

Explanation

AWS Storage Gateway file gateway (specifically Amazon S3 File Gateway) allows on-premises applications to connect to Amazon S3 via standard file-based protocols such as NFS and SMB. In contrast, volume gateway provides block-level storage, while Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx for Lustre are managed network file systems rather than gateways designed for translating file protocols directly into S3 objects.