AWS Certified Developer – Associate (DVA-C02) — Question 325

A developer is storing many objects in a single Amazon S3 bucket. The developer needs to optimize the S3 bucket for high request rates.

How should the developer store the objects to meet this requirement?

Answer options

• A. Store the objects by using S3 Intelligent-Tiering.
• B. Store the objects at the root of the S3 bucket.
• C. Store the objects by using object key names distributed across multiple prefixes.
• D. Store each object with an object tag named "prefix" that contains a unique value.

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Amazon S3 automatically scales to support high request rates, and partitioning the bucket namespace using multiple prefixes helps distribute the request load to achieve higher I/O throughput. Storing objects at the root level or using object tags does not partition the storage to increase request performance. S3 Intelligent-Tiering is designed for cost optimization based on data access patterns, not for boosting request rate performance.