AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 643

A company provides a software as a service (SaaS) application. The company has a new customer that is based in a different country. The new customer's data needs to be hosted in that country.

Which AWS service or infrastructure component should the company use to meet this requirement?

Answer options

• A. AWS Shield
• B. Amazon S3 Object Lock
• C. AWS Regions
• D. Placement groups

Correct answer: C

Explanation

AWS Regions allow customers to deploy resources and store data in specific geographic locations around the world, making them the primary solution for satisfying local data sovereignty and residency regulations. AWS Shield is designed for DDoS protection, Amazon S3 Object Lock prevents objects from being deleted or overwritten, and placement groups influence the physical placement of EC2 instances, none of which address geographic data hosting requirements.