AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) — Question 915

A consumer survey company has gathered data for several years from a specific geographic region. The company stores this data in an Amazon S3 bucket in an AWS Region.

The company has started to share this data with a marketing firm in a new geographic region. The company has granted the firm's AWS account access to the S3 bucket. The company wants to minimize the data transfer costs when the marketing firm requests data from the S3 bucket.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Configure the Requester Pays feature on the company’s S3 bucket.
• B. Configure S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) from the company’s S3 bucket to one of the marketing firm’s S3 buckets.
• C. Configure AWS Resource Access Manager to share the S3 bucket with the marketing firm AWS account.
• D. Configure the company’s S3 bucket to use S3 Intelligent-Tiering Sync the S3 bucket to one of the marketing firm’s S3 buckets.

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Enabling the Requester Pays feature on the Amazon S3 bucket ensures that the marketing firm (the requester) is billed for the data transfer and request costs, thereby reducing the host company's expenses to zero for these operations. Options involving replication or synchronization, such as Cross-Region Replication or S3 Intelligent-Tiering sync, would incur additional data transfer and storage costs for the host company. AWS Resource Access Manager does not natively share S3 buckets to shift data transfer costs to the consumer.