Council meeting recordings land in Amazon S3, stay warm for weeks of citizen review, then are rarely opened. Which storage design best reduces long-term cost while preserving retrieval when needed?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Fresh meeting video hangs out in the expensive seats; old footage moves to the cheap balcony via Lifecycle or Intelligent-Tiering. Leaving everything in Standard forever—or nuking tapes after a day—either burns money or burns history.
Full Explanation
S3 Lifecycle transitions and S3 Intelligent-Tiering automate movement of infrequently accessed objects to lower-cost classes, which fits meeting archives that cool after an initial review window. Permanent Standard retention without tiering raises TCO; deleting against retention/legal holds is noncompliant; multi-Region replication without a continuity requirement multiplies storage and transfer cost.