AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 449

What cloud service does Amazon S3 offer?

Answer options

• A. Atomic updates across keys over the Internet
• B. Messaging over the Internet
• C. Storage over the Internet
• D. Object locking over the Internet

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is primarily designed as an object storage service that allows users to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the Internet. While S3 does support object locking for compliance, its fundamental cloud service offering is storage, making option C correct. Other services like Amazon SQS handle messaging, and Amazon DynamoDB handles atomic key-value updates.