Question 1

A company stores millions of images in Amazon S3. The access patterns are highly unpredictable; some images are accessed daily, while others are not accessed for months. The company wants to optimize storage costs without incurring retrieval fees or operational overhead. Which S3 storage class should be used?

Accepted Answer

Keywords: 'unpredictable access patterns', 'optimize costs', 'no retrieval fees'. This is the exact definition of Intelligent-Tiering.

Question 2

What mistakes do candidates make on this AWS SAA-C03 question?

Accepted Answer

Choosing S3 Standard-IA, which incurs a per-GB retrieval fee that can be costly if access patterns change.

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