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An organization has decided to consolidate storage and move all of its backups and archives to Amazon S3. With all of the data gathered into a hierarchy under a single directory, the organization determines there is 70 TB of data that needs to be uploaded. The organization currently has a 150-Mbps connection with 10 people working at the location.
Which service would be the MOST efficient way to transfer this data to Amazon S3?

A. AWS Snowball
B. AWS Direct Connect
C. AWS Storage Gateway
D. Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️

by coolboylqy at Sept. 21, 2019, 8:14 a.m.

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Moon

Highly Voted 2 years, 8 months ago

I support answer A. if the data transfer would take more than a week then it is more efficient to use Snowball (for 70TB). The 150MB, with full speed (using the maximum Acceleration on the world) requires around ~43 days 5 hours 2 minutes to transfer the 70TB to AWS. Then this is a waste of time, resources, and could be more expensive than snowball (taking into consideration that the 10 people can not use the 150MB as it is busy uploading). Storage gateway, is not meant for such a single time archiving. direct connect, is too expensive for such one time job. So, definitely the answer is "A".

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karmaah

2 years, 8 months ago

Good explanation Moon. The good hint is "taking into consideration that the 10 people can not use the 150MB as it is busy uploading)". I vote for A

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TJarriault

Highly Voted 2 years, 9 months ago

why not A ?

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karmaah

2 years, 8 months ago

Ans a perfectly matches. Snowballs come in two sizes: 50 TB and 80 TB. and provides most efficient way than s3 acceleration..

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albert_kuo

Most Recent 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Selected Answer: A

AWS Snowball is a service specifically designed for large-scale data transfers. It provides a physical device called a Snowball appliance that you can use to securely transfer data to and from Amazon S3. Snowball appliances come in different sizes, and they are shipped to your location, allowing you to transfer data offline and then ship the appliance back to AWS for data ingestion.

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gulu73

1 year, 5 months ago

Selected Answer: A

i vote for A

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TroyMcLure

2 years, 8 months ago

Correct Answer: A The most efficient way is using Snowball.

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RicardoD

2 years, 8 months ago

A is the answer This is the use case for snowball

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abhishek_m_86

2 years, 8 months ago

A. AWS Snowball

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jackdryan

2 years, 8 months ago

I'll go with A

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hurryhurry

2 years, 8 months ago

A is the correct answer.

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MFDOOM

2 years, 8 months ago

A. Snowball

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waterzhong

2 years, 8 months ago

A is the correct answer, key term is efficient way. 100 terabytes of data will take more than 100 days to transfer over a dedicated 100 Mbps connection. A is efficient because we will use only one snowball device (80TB) in less than week

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Pirulou

2 years, 8 months ago

Service MOST efficient, don't talk about cost --> Snowball

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kinetic1g

2 years, 8 months ago

A. Snowball They would saturate their link quickly.

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amo82

2 years, 8 months ago

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saumenP

2 years, 9 months ago

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/ S3 Transfer Acceleration is designed to optimize transfer speeds from across the world into S3 buckets. If you are uploading to a centralized bucket from geographically dispersed locations, or if you regularly transfer GBs or TBs of data across continents, you may save hours or days of data transfer time with S3 Transfer Acceleration.

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