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A media company is building a new content delivery platform for video-on-demand (VOD) services. They need to store petabytes of video files, which are accessed frequently by viewers worldwide. The solution must provide high availability, durability, and low latency for content delivery, while also being cost-effective for large-scale storage. Which AWS storage solution is most appropriate?
- AAmazon EFS Standard
- BAmazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
- CAmazon EBS General Purpose SSD (gp3) volumes
- DAmazon S3 Standard
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Correct answer: D. Amazon S3 Standard
Amazon S3 Standard offers high durability, availability, and performance for frequently accessed data, making it ideal for storing petabytes of video files for a VOD platform. Its object storage nature scales seamlessly to petabytes and beyond, and it's cost-effective for this use case.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Amazon EFS is a file system for EC2 instances, not designed for petabyte-scale, globally distributed VOD content delivery.
- B. Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive is for long-term archival with retrieval times of hours, not for frequently accessed VOD content requiring low latency.
- C. Amazon EBS volumes are block storage attached to EC2 instances, not suitable for petabyte-scale, shared object storage for VOD content delivered globally.
Amazon S3 Standard
An object storage class designed for frequently accessed data, offering high durability, availability, and performance at scale.
- 99.999999999% (11 nines) durability.
- 99.99% availability.
- Low latency access to data.
- Suitable for a wide range of use cases, including VOD, websites, and mobile applications.
Memory trick: S3 Standard: The global video vault, always ready.