An elections office expects election-night media spikes and wants storage that can absorb unpredictable growth without mid-event volume resizing. Which design best scales ahead of that spike?
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Short Explanation
Election night is a flash flood of video—you don’t want to be resizing a hard drive while cameras are rolling. S3 grows with the object load so capacity isn’t a mid-event fire drill. Betting on one fat EBS volume, instance store, or a single-AZ EFS island leaves you resizing or failing under the spike.
Full Explanation
Amazon S3 provides virtually unlimited object capacity that scales automatically with stored objects, making it appropriate for unpredictable media growth such as election-night uploads. EBS volumes require capacity planning and modification; instance store is ephemeral and size-limited to the instance; One Zone EFS does not remove the need for sound capacity and availability design. Object storage therefore best meets “scale for future needs” without resize drama during the event.