Design Cost-Optimized Architectures Practice Question

Question

For a media company, an architect is reviewing storage cleanup requirement set 19. Which design choice best fits the requirement while following AWS architectural best practices?

Answer choices

1. A. Place all components on a single large instance to simplify troubleshooting.
2. B. Use long-lived access keys in application configuration so services can call AWS APIs directly.
3. C. Expire unused objects, snapshots, and logs based on retention requirements.
4. D. Disable monitoring until the workload reaches steady production traffic.

Correct Answer

C. Expire unused objects, snapshots, and logs based on retention requirements.

Explanation

The best answer applies storage cleanup: expire unused objects, snapshots, and logs based on retention requirements. The other options increase operational risk, weaken security, or remove observability that an AWS Solutions Architect should preserve.

Question details

• Difficulty: medium
• Domain: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
• Objective: storage cleanup

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