A city’s media archive in Amazon S3 has unpredictable access: some campaign videos go viral for a week, then sit untouched for months. Which storage class strategy best optimizes cost when access patterns are unknown?
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Short Explanation
When you can’t predict which clip will go viral next, let the storage class chase the clicks. Intelligent-Tiering auto-moves objects between hot and cooler tiers as access changes. Deep Archive for every view, one EC2 disk, or a DIY io2 object store fight that uncertainty the expensive way.
Full Explanation
Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering automatically moves objects between access tiers based on changing usage, which suits unpredictable municipal media archives without manual lifecycle guesswork. Forcing all content into Deep Archive harms frequent-access latency and operations. Instance store or single-AZ DIY object stores shift durability and operations risk while rarely improving cost predictability. Intelligent-Tiering is the cost-optimized answer when access patterns are unknown.