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.
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)- A15% (5)
- B76% (25)
- C6% (2)
- D3% (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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