A market data company aggregates external data sources to create a detailed view of product consumption in different countries. The company wants to sell this data to external parties through a…

Question

Options

• AStore the data in Amazon S3.
• BStore the data in Amazon S3.
• CUpload the data to AWS Data Exchange for storage.
• DUpload the data to AWS Data Exchange for storage.

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  8% (3)
• C
  6% (2)
• D
  83% (30)

Explanation

AWS Data Exchange is specifically designed for the use case of publishing, distributing, and monetizing data to external AWS customers. A data provider uploads their dataset to AWS Data Exchange, creates a product listing with subscription terms, and AWS handles the secure delivery, entitlement management, billing, and access control for subscribers - all within the AWS ecosystem. External parties who are AWS users can discover and subscribe to the data directly from the AWS Marketplace/Data Exchange console, receiving data into their own S3 buckets. This requires minimal operational overhead from the data provider. Option A/B (plain S3) would require the company to manually manage cross-account permissions, access credentials, and billing for each subscriber. The duplicate answer choices (A=B, C=D) in this question are likely a rendering artifact, but the correct answer is clearly the AWS Data Exchange option.

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