AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 882

A company has a physical tape library to store data backups. The tape library is running out of space. The company needs to extend the tape library's capacity to the AWS Cloud.
Which AWS service should the company use to meet this requirement?

Answer options

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

Correct answer: D

Explanation

AWS Storage Gateway offers a Tape Gateway configuration that emulates a physical tape library, allowing the company to seamlessly extend its backup infrastructure to the AWS Cloud without disrupting existing workflows. Other services like Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, and Amazon EFS do not provide a direct virtual tape library (VTL) interface to integrate with legacy backup applications.