AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C02) — Question 154

A leasing company generates and emails PDF statements every month for all its customers. Each statement is about 400 KB in size. Customers can download their statements from the website for up to 30 days from when the statements were generated. At the end of their 3-year lease, the customers are emailed a ZIP file that contains all the statements.
What is the MOST cost-effective storage solution for this situation?

Answer options

• A. Store the statements using the Amazon S3 Standard storage class. Create a lifecycle policy to move the statements to Amazon S3 Glacier storage after 1 day.
• B. Store the statements using the Amazon S3 Glacier storage class. Create a lifecycle policy to move the statements to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage after 30 days.
• C. Store the statements using the Amazon S3 Standard storage class. Create a lifecycle policy to move the statements to Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) storage after 30 days.
• D. Store the statements using the Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) storage class. Create a lifecycle policy to move the statements to Amazon S3 Glacier storage after 30 days.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D because using S3 Standard-IA allows for cost-effective storage of infrequently accessed data, which aligns with the 30-day download requirement. Options A and C do not provide the most economical approach for long-term storage after the initial access period, while option B is not suitable as Glacier is not intended for frequently accessed data and transitioning to Deep Archive after 30 days is not cost-effective.