A company runs a web application on a fleet of EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application needs to share user-uploaded files across all instances. The files are typically small (under 1 MB) and accessed frequently. The company is considering Amazon EFS with Bursting Throughput mode. However, they are concerned about the cost of the file system and want to ensure that the performance is sufficient. Which factor is most important to consider when evaluating EFS Bursting Throughput mode for this workload?

The file system's size determines the baseline throughput and burst credits, so a larger file system provides more consistent performance.

The file system should be configured with Provisioned Throughput mode to guarantee performance for small files.

The number of EC2 instances accessing the file system determines the throughput, so more instances require more provisioned throughput.

The file system must be mounted with the NFS over UDP protocol to achieve higher throughput.

A company must keep all customer data within its on-premises data center to satisfy a data residency requirement, but it wants to use AWS for analytics on that data. Which hybrid storage approach best meets this requirement?

Keep data on-premises and use AWS Outposts to run analytics locally

Use AWS Storage Gateway to replicate data to an S3 bucket in a specific AWS Region

Use AWS DataSync to continuously transfer data to Amazon S3 for analytics

Store data in Amazon S3 and use AWS Glue for analytics

A data analytics company is building a data lake to store raw and processed data from multiple sources. The data volume is expected to grow from 10 TB to 500 TB over the next 2 years. The company needs a storage solution that scales automatically, supports high throughput for analytics jobs, and provides lifecycle management to reduce costs. Which solution should they choose?

Amazon EBS volumes with snapshots to S3 for backup

AWS Storage Gateway File Gateway with a local cache

Amazon EFS with Bursting Throughput mode

Amazon S3 with S3 Lifecycle policies to transition data to colder storage tiers

Which characteristic is typical of file storage, such as Amazon EFS?

Raw block-level access with low latency

A flat namespace with no hierarchy

Access only via HTTP/HTTPS APIs

A hierarchical directory structure with shared access and POSIX permissions

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A company runs a web application on a fleet of EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application needs to share user-uploaded files across all instances. The files are typically small (under 1 MB) and accessed frequently. The company is considering Amazon EFS with Bursting Throughput mode. However, they are concerned about the cost of the file system and want to ensure that the performance is sufficient. Which factor is most important to consider when evaluating EFS Bursting Throughput mode for this workload?
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A company must keep all customer data within its on-premises data center to satisfy a data residency requirement, but it wants to use AWS for analytics on that data. Which hybrid storage approach best meets this requirement?
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13application · medium
A data analytics company is building a data lake to store raw and processed data from multiple sources. The data volume is expected to grow from 10 TB to 500 TB over the next 2 years. The company needs a storage solution that scales automatically, supports high throughput for analytics jobs, and provides lifecycle management to reduce costs. Which solution should they choose?
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Which characteristic is typical of file storage, such as Amazon EFS?
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A gaming company runs a real-time analytics application on a fleet of EC2 instances. The application writes high-volume, sequential log data and reads it occasionally for batch processing. The workload requires high throughput (up to 500 MB/s) but does not require high IOPS. Which EBS volume type is the most cost-effective choice?
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A company must keep all customer data within its on-premises data center to satisfy a data residency requirement, but it wants to use AWS for analytics on that data. Which hybrid storage approach best meets this requirement?

Which characteristic is typical of file storage, such as Amazon EFS?

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