A records office must keep infrequently accessed historical archives for years at the lowest practical storage cost and can tolerate delayed retrieval. Which Amazon S3 approach best matches that need at Cloud Practitioner depth?
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Short Explanation
Cold archives are like boxes in a warehouse—you rarely open them, so you pay less to store and wait longer to retrieve. S3 Glacier family classes are built for that infrequent-access archive story. Leaving everything on hot Standard forever is simpler but usually pricier for deep history.
Full Explanation
Amazon S3 storage classes include Glacier family options intended for archival and infrequently accessed data, trading retrieval characteristics and cost against hotter classes such as S3 Standard. Cloud Practitioner items emphasize choosing colder archival classes when access is rare and delayed retrieval is acceptable. EBS high-IOPS volumes and CloudFront caches are the wrong durability and access models for long-term archive storage.