A company is migrating its SAP S/4HANA landscape from on premises to AWS. An SAP solutions architect is designing a backup solution for the SAP S/4HANA landscape on AWS. The backup solution will use A

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Options

• AConfigure the target S3 bucket to use S3 Glacier Deep Archive for the backup files. Create S3
• BConfigure the target S3 bucket to use S3 Standard storage for the backup files. Create an S3
• CConfigure the target S3 bucket to use S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) for the
• DConfigure the target S3 bucket to use S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) for the

• A
  19% (4)
• B
  5% (1)
• C
  5% (1)
• D
  71% (15)

Explanation

The requirements are: 150-day retention for weekly full backups, 30-day retention for daily logs, retrieval 1-2 times per year within 10 hours, and maximum data resiliency. Option D (S3 Standard-IA with lifecycle rules) satisfies all constraints: S3 Standard-IA is stored across multiple AZs (maximizes resiliency, unlike S3 One Zone-IA which is single-AZ and eliminates option C), it is significantly cheaper than S3 Standard for infrequently accessed data (fits the 1-2 retrievals/year pattern), and retrieval is immediate (well within the 10-hour SLA). S3 Lifecycle rules can automatically expire weekly backups after 150 days and transaction logs after 30 days. Option A (Glacier Deep Archive) has a maximum retrieval time of 12 hours for standard retrieval, which could exceed the 10-hour requirement and is therefore too risky. Option B (S3 Standard) is more expensive than needed for data accessed only 1-2 times per year. The 30-day minimum storage charge for S3 Standard-IA aligns well with the 30-day log retention policy.

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