S3 Storage Classes

Question 1

What is IA

Answer 1

IA is INFREQUENT Access

Question 2

What are the S3 Storage Classes

Answer 2

S3 Standard
S3 Standard Infrequent Access (IA)
S3 Intelligent Tiering

S3 One Zone-IA
S3 Express One-Zone

S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval
S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Question 3

What is the lowest latency S3 storage?

Answer 3

S3 Express One-Zone

Question 4

What is the default S3 storage tier?

Answer 4

S3 Standard

Question 5

What is the most expensive storage tier?

Answer 5

S3 Standard

Question 6

What is S3 Intelligent Tiering?

Answer 6

For a small overhead automation cost, S3 Intelligent Tiering moves your data to the most cost-effective access tier. Best for data with unknown or changing access patterns.

Question 7

What are the access tiers that S3 Intelligent Tiering uses?

Answer 7

Frequent Access
Infrequent Access
Archive Instant Access

Question 8

What are the S3 infrequent access tiers?

Answer 8

S3 Standard-IA
S3 One Zone-IA

Question 9

What should the S3 IA tiers be used for?

Answer 9

S3 Standard-IA - infrequently acessed data
S3 One Zone-IA - infrequently acessed data that can be recreated. This is the cheaper option

Question 10

What are the S3 archive storage tiers?

Answer 10

S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval
S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Question 11

How should the archive storage tiers be used?

Answer 11

S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval - Use for archiving data that is rarely accessed and requires milliseconds retrieval
S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval - Use for archives where portions of the data might need to be retrieved in minutes.
S3 Glacier Deep Archive - Use for archiving data that rarely needs to be accessed.