AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 701

A company stores thousands of non-critical log files in an Amazon S3 bucket. A set of reporting scripts retrieve these log files daily.
Which of the following storage options will be the MOST cost-efficient for the company's use case?

Answer options

• A. Amazon Glacier
• B. Amazon S3 Standard IA (infrequent access) storage
• C. Amazon S3 Standard Storage
• D. AWS Snowball

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Since the reporting scripts access the log files daily, the high frequency of retrieval makes Amazon S3 Standard Storage the most cost-effective choice because it has no data retrieval fees. Amazon S3 Standard-IA and Amazon Glacier are designed for infrequently accessed data and would incur significant retrieval charges for daily access. AWS Snowball is a physical data transfer service and is not applicable as an ongoing storage class.