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A company uses on-premises servers to host its applications. The company is running out of storage capacity. The applications use both block storage and NFS storage. The company needs a high-performing solution that supports local caching without re-architecting its existing applications.

Which combination of actions should a solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A. Mount Amazon S3 as a file system to the on-premises servers.
B. Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway to replace NFS storage.
C. Deploy AWS Snowball Edge to provision NFS mounts to on-premises servers.
D. Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway to replace the block storage.
E. Deploy Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) volumes and mount them to on-premises servers.

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Suggested Answer: BD 🗳️

by Piccalo at May 17, 2023, 3:56 p.m.

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cloudenthusiast

Highly Voted 1 year, 9 months ago

Selected Answer: BD

By combining the deployment of an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway and an AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway, the company can address both its block storage and NFS storage needs, while leveraging local caching capabilities for improved performance.

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awsgeek75

Most Recent 1 year, 1 month ago

Selected Answer: BD

A: Not possible C: Snowball edge is snowball with computing. It's not a NAS! E: Technically yes but requires VPN or Direct Connect so re-architecture B & D both use Storage Gateway which can be used as NFS and Block storage https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/

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ftaws

1 year, 2 months ago

Use the Storage Gateway -> It means that use S3 for storage ?

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thanhnv142

1 year, 4 months ago

DE B is not correct be cause NFS is a file system while storage gw is a storage. To replace a file system, need another file system which is EFS.

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Tekk97

1 year, 3 months ago

That's what i thought. but I think B is work too.

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wizcloudifa

9 months, 4 weeks ago

if you focus on the wording of option B its "Storage gateway File gateway" not volume gateway hence it is perfect replacement for NFS files.

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TariqKipkemei

1 year, 7 months ago

Selected Answer: BD

Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway to replace NFS storage Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway to replace the block storage

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elmogy

1 year, 8 months ago

Selected Answer: BD

local caching is a key feature of AWS Storage Gateway solution https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/features/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/aws-storage-gateway-increases-cache-4x-and-enhances-bandwidth-throttling/#:~:text=AWS%20Storage%20Gateway%20increases%20cache%204x%20and%20enhances,for%20Volume%20Gateway%20customers%20...%205%20Conclusion%20

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Piccalo

1 year, 9 months ago

Selected Answer: BD

B and D is the correct answer

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