A company is planning to move data backups to the AWS Cloud. The company needs to replace on-premises storage with storage that is cloud-based but locally cached. Which AWS service meets these require

Question

Options

• AAWS Storage Gateway
• BAWS Snowcone
• CAWS Backup
• DAmazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

• A
  83% (54)
• B
  5% (3)
• C
  2% (1)
• D
  11% (7)

Explanation

Explanation

AWS Storage Gateway is the ideal solution here because it acts as a bridge between on-premises environments and AWS Cloud storage, providing cloud-based storage while maintaining a local cache on-premises for low-latency access - directly matching the requirement of "cloud-based but locally cached."

AWS Snowcone (B) is a small, portable edge computing and data transfer device designed for offline data migration, not for replacing on-premises storage with a cached cloud solution. AWS Backup (C) is a centralized backup management service that automates backups across AWS services, but it does not provide local caching functionality. Amazon EFS (D) is a scalable, cloud-based file system for use with AWS services and Linux workloads, but it lacks the on-premises local caching capability.

Memory Tip: Think of Storage Gateway as a "gateway drug" to the cloud - it keeps one foot on-premises (local cache) and one foot in the cloud, making it the go-to answer whenever you see keywords like "hybrid," "locally cached," or "replace on-premises storage."

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