AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 711

A company wants to deploy a web application on AWS that serves audio and video content.

Which AWS service would provide high availability and scalability in this situation?

Answer options

• A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
• B. Amazon EC2
• C. AWS Storage Gateway
• D. Amazon S3

Correct answer: D

Explanation

Amazon S3 is an object storage service designed to store and retrieve any amount of data, offering industry-leading scalability, data availability, and durability for hosting media assets like audio and video files. Amazon EBS is limited to block storage for individual EC2 instances, while Amazon EC2 is a compute service and AWS Storage Gateway is meant for hybrid cloud storage integration, making Amazon S3 the optimal choice for highly scalable media distribution.