AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) — Question 319

A company is designing a shared storage solution for a gaming application that is hosted in the AWS Cloud. The company needs the ability to use SMB clients to access data. The solution must be fully managed.

Which AWS solution meets these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Create an AWS DataSync task that shares the data as a mountable file system. Mount the file system to the application server.
• B. Create an Amazon EC2 Windows instance. Install and configure a Windows file share role on the instance. Connect the application server to the file share.
• C. Create an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system. Attach the file system to the origin server. Connect the application server to the file system.
• D. Create an Amazon S3 bucket. Assign an IAM role to the application to grant access to the S3 bucket. Mount the S3 bucket to the application server.

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is a fully managed file system built on Windows Server that natively supports the SMB protocol. Option B is incorrect because deploying and managing an EC2 instance is self-managed rather than fully managed. Options A and D are incorrect as they do not provide a native, fully managed SMB file share solution for application servers.