SOA-C03 practice question: S3 performance and data transfer

Monitoring, Logging, Analysis, Remediation, and Performance Optimization A free question from our original SOA-C03 practice exam. Try it, then open the answer to see why each option is right or wrong.

An esports league records match footage at venues on several continents and uploads each file, between 8 GB and 20 GB, to one S3 bucket in us-east-1. Uploads from distant venues are slow, and a single network interruption forces the whole file to be sent again. The league wants faster, more resilient uploads without changing the bucket's Region. Which TWO actions should a CloudOps engineer recommend? (Choose two.)

Choose two answers.

A. Upload each file with multipart upload so that parts transfer in parallel and only failed parts are sent again.
B. Turn on S3 Transfer Acceleration for the bucket and upload through the accelerate endpoint from each venue.
C. Turn on S3 Versioning so that an interrupted upload resumes from the last version that was stored in the bucket.
D. Upload the footage to an S3 directory bucket that uses S3 Express One Zone, which is built for lower-latency writes.
E. Spread the files across many key prefixes so that S3 gives each prefix its own request rate limit.

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Answers: A, B

A. Right: Correct. Multipart upload splits a file into parts that upload in parallel and can be retried one at a time. A single PUT is limited to 5 GB, so files of this size need multipart upload anyway. Learn more: Uploading and copying objects using multipart upload (opens in a new tab)
B. Right: Correct. Transfer Acceleration routes uploads into the nearest CloudFront edge location and then across the AWS network to the bucket. It helps most when clients are far from the bucket's Region. Learn more: Configuring fast, secure file transfers using Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration (opens in a new tab)
C. Wrong: Versioning keeps earlier versions of objects that are overwritten or deleted. An interrupted upload does not create a partial version, so nothing can be resumed this way. Learn more: Retaining multiple versions of objects with S3 Versioning (opens in a new tab)
D. Wrong: S3 Express One Zone stores data in a single Availability Zone and gives low latency to compute in that same zone. It does not speed up long-distance uploads from venues and changes how the data is stored. Learn more: Understanding and managing Amazon S3 storage classes (opens in a new tab)
E. Wrong: Prefixes raise the number of requests per second a bucket can handle. These uploads are a few very large files, so request rate is not the bottleneck. Learn more: Best practices for Amazon S3 performance (opens in a new tab)

Explanation

Large files over long distances need two fixes. Multipart upload sends parts in parallel and retries only what fails, and it is required above 5 GB. Transfer Acceleration shortens the slow public internet part of the path by entering the AWS network at a nearby edge location. Prefixes, storage classes and versioning do not address either problem.

SOA-C03 practice question: S3 performance and data transfer

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