GK Question

technology medium mcq

Which storage class is most cost-effective for infrequently accessed archival data?

  1. Standard
  2. Infrequent Access
  3. Archive
  4. Glacier Deep Archive

Answer: Glacier Deep Archive

Glacier Deep Archive offers lowest cost for long-term retention with 12+ hour retrieval times. Ideal for regulatory archives, backups. Trade-off: low storage cost vs high retrieval latency.

Topic Cloud Architecture
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