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SAA-C03 · Question #719

A company does not have enough on-premises storage capacity for its file-based storage. The company has many applications that use both SMB and NFS protocols. A solutions architect needs a solution th

The correct answer is B. Deploy an Amazon S3 File Gateway on premises to expose a local file share through SMB and. An Amazon S3 File Gateway provides on-premises access to Amazon S3 using standard file protocols such as SMB and NFS. This allows applications to continue using existing file-based protocols without changes, while extending storage capacity to the cloud.

Submitted by tarun92· Mar 4, 2026Design Resilient Architectures

Question

A company does not have enough on-premises storage capacity for its file-based storage. The company has many applications that use both SMB and NFS protocols. A solutions architect needs a solution that extends the current storage capacity. The solution must not require major changes to the applications. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options

  • AMount a scalable Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system to all application servers
  • BDeploy an Amazon S3 File Gateway on premises to expose a local file share through SMB and
  • CAttach Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes to on-premises servers by using
  • DMigrate the application data to Amazon S3. Update the applications to interact with object storage

How the community answered

(33 responses)
  • A
    15% (5)
  • B
    76% (25)
  • C
    6% (2)
  • D
    3% (1)

Explanation

An Amazon S3 File Gateway provides on-premises access to Amazon S3 using standard file protocols such as SMB and NFS. This allows applications to continue using existing file-based protocols without changes, while extending storage capacity to the cloud.

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