A county open-data program will publish multi-terabyte media datasets that many researchers read in parallel. Which storage platform best fits that scale?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
A multi-TB open-data lake wants a warehouse with loading docks for everyone—that is S3. One EBS volume or a workstation disk becomes the bottleneck and the SPOF. Object scale beats single-disk nostalgia.
Full Explanation
Amazon S3 is designed for massive scalable object storage with high parallel read throughput for many clients, which fits multi-terabyte open media lakes. A single EBS volume, local workstation disks, or instance stores cannot provide the same durability and concurrent object-scale access pattern. Prefer S3 when the workload is large object data with parallel consumers.