AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C02) — Question 216

A company has copied 1 PB of data from a colocation facility to an Amazon S3 bucket in the us-east-1 Region using an AWS Direct Connect link. The company now wants to copy the data to another S3 bucket in the us-west-2 Region. The colocation facility does not allow the use of AWS Snowball.
What should a solutions architect recommend to accomplish this?

Answer options

• A. Order a Snowball Edge device to copy the data from one Region to another Region.
• B. Transfer contents from the source S3 bucket to a target S3 bucket using the S3 console.
• C. Use the aws S3 sync command to copy data from the source bucket to the destination bucket.
• D. Add a cross-Region replication configuration to copy objects across S3 buckets in different Regions.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D because cross-Region replication automatically replicates objects across S3 buckets in different Regions, which is ideal for this scenario. Option A is incorrect as Snowball cannot be used per the restrictions. Option B does not provide a method for ongoing replication, and Option C only allows a one-time copy rather than continuous replication.