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A marketing department needs to store product images and PDF brochures. These assets must be publicly accessible via direct URL links from the internet to be embedded in marketing emails. Which AWS storage service is best suited for storing and serving these files directly over the web?

  1. A
    Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
  2. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)Answer
  3. C
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
  4. D
    Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval

Answer

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service designed to store and serve static content, such as images and PDFs, directly to the web. Each object in Amazon S3 is assigned a unique URL, allowing direct access from internet applications or marketing emails when configured with appropriate public permissions.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the access requirement for the stored files.
The files (images and PDFs) must be directly accessible to users via public URL links over the internet.
This determines whether the storage interface needs to support direct web access (object storage) or requires attachment to a compute instance (block or file storage).
2
Evaluate the capabilities of the available AWS storage services.
Amazon S3 allows objects to be configured for public access and provides direct HTTP/HTTPS URLs for each object. Services like EBS and EFS must be mounted to EC2 instances and cannot serve files directly to the web, while S3 Glacier is intended for archival data with delayed retrieval times.
Matching the requirements to the correct service capabilities leads to selecting the most suitable and direct solution.

Key Concept

Selecting the appropriate AWS storage service based on access patterns (object storage for web-facing static assets).
Estimated Time:45s
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AWS Storage Services

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