Question 440
A production readiness review reports the following problem, the decisive constraint is: An existing Windows SMB share must be presented locally while files are progressively moved to S3. Which recommendation best addresses the actual bottleneck?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Use AWS Storage Gateway File Gateway with appropriate on-premises deployment. The choice follows from the service boundary and operational constraint stated in the scenario.
Incorrect Answers
For the separate situation An AWS Enterprise Support customer can physically transport portable drives to an AWS transfer facility but cannot upload 500 TB over its office WAN, Reserve AWS Data Transfer Terminal and bring the storage devices for high-speed ingestion could be useful. Data Transfer Terminal accepts customer-owned devices at secured physical facilities; Snow Family devices are unavailable to new customers.
Configure AWS Transfer Family with SFTP and approved authentication solves the related scenario A partner requires managed SFTP uploads into an AWS-hosted S3 bucket; transfer Family presents managed file-transfer protocols backed by AWS storage.
Use AWS DataSync with suitable source and target locations and scheduled verification would address a different requirement: A NAS holds 80 TB of files that must move to EFS over a reliable WAN without custom sync scripts. DataSync transfers supported file data with managed copy and integrity features.