A company wants to design a disaster recovery (DR) solution for an application that runs in the companyβs data center. The application writes to an SMB file share and creates a copy on a second file share. Both file shares are in the data center. The application uses two types of files: metadata files and image files. The company wants to store the copy on AWS. The company needs the ability to use SMB to access the data from either the data center or AWS if a disaster occurs. The copy of the data is rarely accessed but must be available within 5 minutes.
- ADeploy AWS Outposts with Amazon S3 storage. Configure a Windows Amazon EC2 instance on Outposts as a file server.
- BDeploy an Amazon FSx File Gateway. Configure an Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Multi-AZ file system that uses SSD storage.
- CDeploy an Amazon S3 File Gateway. Configure the S3 File Gateway to use Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) for the metadata files and to use S3 Glacier Deep Archive for the image files.
- DDeploy an Amazon S3 File Gateway. Configure the S3 File Gateway to use Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) for the metadata files and image files. (correct answer)
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The correct answer is D. Option D: Deploy an Amazon S3 File Gateway. Configure the S3 File Gateway to use Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) for the metadata files and image files.
Explanation
S3 Standard-IA reduces cost for infrequently accessed data that still needs high availability. Amazon S3 provides durable, scalable object storage that is fully managed. S3 File Gateway presents S3 as an NFS/SMB file share to on-premises applications. By spanning multiple Availability Zones / adding redundancy, this option provides the high availability and resilience required.