The planning department must archive decades of scanned building-permit PDFs and inspection photos that are rarely retrieved after the first year, while keeping the objects in a multi-account records bucket that legal can restore from without running a database. Which storage architecture should replace on-premises block LUNs?
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Short Explanation
Old permit scans are a warehouse of boxes, not a spinning disk you babysit. S3 plus Glacier classes keep objects cheap and restorable; stuffing archives onto EBS, instance store, or database BLOBs turns a records problem into a server problem.
Full Explanation
Archival object workloads such as historical building permits map to Amazon S3 with lifecycle policies into Glacier storage classes, not to block LUNs or database BLOBs. Object storage provides durability, legal restore paths, and cost-tiering across accounts without an always-on file server. EBS, instance store, and RDS binary columns do not provide the archival storage-class model required for rarely accessed municipal records.