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A pharmaceutical company is developing a new drug. The volume of data that the company generates has grown exponentially over the past few months. The company's researchers regularly require a subset of the entire dataset to be immediately available with minimal lag. However the entire dataset does not need to be accessed on a daily basis. All the data currently resides in on-premises storage arrays, and the company wants to reduce ongoing capital expenses.

Which storage solution should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?

A.
Run AWS DataSync as a scheduled cron job to migrate the data to an Amazon S3 bucket on an ongoing basis.
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A.
Run AWS DataSync as a scheduled cron job to migrate the data to an Amazon S3 bucket on an ongoing basis.
B.
Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway with an Amazon S3 bucket as the target storage Migrate the data to the Storage Gateway appliance.
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B.
Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway with an Amazon S3 bucket as the target storage Migrate the data to the Storage Gateway appliance.
C.
Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway with cached volumes with an Amazon S3 bucket as the target storage. Migrate the data to the Storage Gateway appliance.
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C.
Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway with cached volumes with an Amazon S3 bucket as the target storage. Migrate the data to the Storage Gateway appliance.
D.
Configure an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection from the on-premises environment to AWS. Migrate data to an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system.
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D.
Configure an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection from the on-premises environment to AWS. Migrate data to an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system.
Suggested answer: C

Explanation:

AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that allows you to seamlessly integrate your on-premises applications with AWS cloud storage. Volume Gateway is a type of Storage Gateway that presents cloud-backed iSCSI block storage volumes to your on-premises applications. Volume Gateway operates in either cache mode or stored mode. In cache mode, your primary data is stored in Amazon S3, while retaining your frequently accessed data locally in the cache for low latency access. In stored mode, your primary data is stored locally and your entire dataset is available for low latency access on premises while also asynchronously getting backed up to Amazon S3.

For the pharmaceutical company's use case, cache mode is the most suitable option, as it meets the following requirements:

It reduces the need to scale the on-premises storage infrastructure, as most of the data is stored in Amazon S3, which is scalable, durable, and cost-effective.

It provides low latency access to the subset of the data that the researchers regularly require, as it is cached locally in the Storage Gateway appliance.

It does not require the entire dataset to be accessed on a daily basis, as it is stored in Amazon S3 and can be retrieved on demand.

It offers flexible data protection and recovery options, as it allows taking point-in-time copies of the volumes using AWS Backup, which are stored in AWS as Amazon EBS snapshots.

Therefore, the solutions architect should recommend deploying an AWS Storage Gateway volume gateway with cached volumes with an Amazon S3 bucket as the target storage and migrating the data to the Storage Gateway appliance.

Volume Gateway | Amazon Web Services

How Volume Gateway works (architecture) - AWS Storage Gateway

AWS Storage Volume Gateway - Cached volumes - Stack Overflow

asked 16/09/2024
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