AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 617

A company wants to migrate its on-premises application to the AWS Cloud. The company is legally obligated to retain certain data in its on-premises data center.

Which AWS service or feature will support this requirement?

Answer options

• A. AWS Wavelength
• B. AWS Local Zones
• C. VMware Cloud on AWS
• D. AWS Outposts

Correct answer: D

Explanation

AWS Outposts allows organizations to run native AWS services on-premises, directly addressing strict data residency and compliance laws by keeping specified data within their physical data center. In contrast, AWS Local Zones and AWS Wavelength are hosted on AWS-managed infrastructure for low-latency and 5G edge computing, while VMware Cloud on AWS runs VMware workloads on the AWS global infrastructure rather than on-premises.