A county clerk must archive closed case PDFs that are rarely opened but, when needed, must appear within milliseconds for courtroom staff. Which Amazon S3 storage class best balances archive cost with that restore latency?
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Short Explanation
Deep Archive is great when you're okay waiting hours—not when a judge needs the PDF now. Glacier Instant Retrieval is the archive shelf that still hands files back in milliseconds for those rare pulls.
Full Explanation
S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is designed for long-lived, infrequently accessed data that still requires millisecond retrieval. Glacier Deep Archive minimizes storage price but uses longer restore times unsuitable for courtroom immediacy. S3 Standard-IA is not the archive class for this pattern, and One Zone-IA reduces durability/availability relative to multi-AZ designs needed for critical retrievals.