A company's compliance officer wants to review the AWS Service Organization Control (SOC) reports. Which AWS service or feature should the compliance officer use to complete this task?

Question

Options

• AAWS Artifact
• BAWS Concierge Support
• CAWS Support
• DAWS Trusted Advisor

• A
  92% (22)
• B
  4% (1)
• D
  4% (1)

Explanation

AWS Artifact is AWS's self-service portal for accessing compliance documentation, including SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 reports, ISO certifications, and PCI DSS documents - making it the only service designed specifically for this purpose.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B. AWS Concierge Support is a premium support feature for billing and account assistance, not compliance documents.
• C. AWS Support handles technical troubleshooting and service issues, not audit reports.
• D. AWS Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment against best practices (cost, security, performance), but doesn't provide AWS's own compliance reports.

Memory tip: Think of Artifact as a document artifact - it's where AWS stores its formal compliance "artifacts" (SOC reports, certifications) that auditors and compliance officers need. If the question involves downloading or reviewing AWS's own compliance/audit documents, the answer is always Artifact.

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