Your team is publishing research results and needs to make large amounts of data available to other researchers within the professional community and the public at minimum cost. How should you host…

Question

Options

• AUse a Cloud Storage bucket and enable "Requester Pays.'
• BUse a Cloud Storage bucket and provide Signed URLs for the data files.
• CUse a Cloud Storage bucket and set up a Cloud Interconnect connection to allow access to the
• DHost the data on-premises. and set up a Cloud Interconnect connection to allow access to the

• A
  85% (33)
• B
  5% (2)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  8% (3)

Explanation

Enabling 'Requester Pays' on a Cloud Storage bucket means that the party accessing and downloading the data pays for the egress and operation costs, rather than the bucket owner. This is the ideal model for distributing large research datasets publicly at minimum cost to the publisher. Signed URLs provide temporary, scoped access but don't shift costs to requesters. Cloud Interconnect is an expensive dedicated network connection intended for private, high-throughput enterprise use - not public data distribution. Hosting on-premises with Cloud Interconnect is also expensive and defeats the purpose of using cloud.

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