AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 600

A company is considering migration to the AWS Cloud. The company wants a fully managed service or feature that can transfer streaming data from multiple sources to an Amazon S3 bucket.

Which AWS service or feature should the company use to meet these requirement?

Answer options

• A. AWS DataSync
• B. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
• C. S3 Select
• D. AWS Transfer Family

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to reliably load streaming data into data lakes, data stores, and analytics services like Amazon S3. AWS DataSync and AWS Transfer Family are optimized for transferring bulk files or existing data repositories rather than real-time streams. S3 Select is used to retrieve subsets of data from an object in S3 using SQL, not for data ingestion.