AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 879

A company is migrating to Amazon S3. The company needs to transfer 60 TB of data from an on-premises data center to AWS within 10 days.
Which AWS service should the company use to accomplish this migration?

Answer options

• A. Amazon S3 Glacier
• B. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
• C. AWS Snowball
• D. AWS Direct Connect

Correct answer: C

Explanation

AWS Snowball is a physical data transport device designed to securely migrate large amounts of data (such as 60 TB) to AWS, easily fitting within a 10-day window. AWS Direct Connect takes weeks to provision and set up, making it unsuitable for this urgent timeline. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) is intended for database replication, and Amazon S3 Glacier is a cold storage archiving service, not a data transfer tool.