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A solutions architect needs to optimize storage costs. The solutions architect must identify any Amazon S3 buckets that are no longer being accessed or are rarely accessed.

Which solution will accomplish this goal with the LEAST operational overhead?

  • A. Analyze bucket access patterns by using the S3 Storage Lens dashboard for advanced activity metrics.
  • B. Analyze bucket access patterns by using the S3 dashboard in the AWS Management Console.
  • C. Turn on the Amazon CloudWatch BucketSizeBytes metric for buckets. Analyze bucket access patterns by using the metrics data with Amazon Athena.
  • D. Turn on AWS CloudTrail for S3 object monitoring. Analyze bucket access patterns by using CloudTrail logs that are integrated with Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
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Suggested Answer: A 🗳️
by kpato87 at Feb. 18, 2023, 2:49 p.m.
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kpato87
Highly Voted 1 year, 10 months ago
Selected Answer: A
S3 Storage Lens is a fully managed S3 storage analytics solution that provides a comprehensive view of object storage usage, activity trends, and recommendations to optimize costs. Storage Lens allows you to analyze object access patterns across all of your S3 buckets and generate detailed metrics and reports.
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bdp123
Highly Voted 1 year, 10 months ago
Selected Answer: A
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/s3-storage-lens/
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Gape4
Most Recent 6 months ago
Selected Answer: A
S3 Storage Lens includes an interactive dashboard which you can find in the S3 console. The dashboard gives you the ability to perform filtering and drill-down into your metrics to really understand how your storage is being used. The metrics are organized into categories like data protection and cost efficiency, to allow you to easily find relevant metrics.
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AmijoSando
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Anyone passed the exam can confirm the right answer ? A or D
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xyGGXH
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Selected Answer: A
A S3 Storage Lens is the first cloud storage analytics solution to provide a single view of object storage usage and activity across hundreds, or even thousands, of accounts in an organization, with drill-downs to generate insights at multiple aggregation levels.
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Neung983
10 months, 1 week ago
On the other hand, Option B suggests using the S3 dashboard in the AWS Management Console, which provides a straightforward and user-friendly interface to monitor S3 bucket access patterns. This option may have less operational overhead compared to setting up and managing Storage Lens. Additionally, for simply identifying rarely accessed buckets, the built-in metrics and access analysis provided by the S3 dashboard can often suffice without the need for advanced analytics offered by Storage Lens. Therefore, Option B is considered to have less operational overhead for the specific task described in the question.
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jaswantn
10 months, 2 weeks ago
But nowhere on S3 Storage Lens dashboard this information is available; that when the bucket is accessed last time. But it gives insight on the bucket's size. with this information we can check if files can be moved to less costly storage class. This way we can reduce storage cost..... The information which is the main requirement of the given scenario, is available when we use Cloudtrail logs ... so i choose option D.
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jaswantn
10 months, 2 weeks ago
if the bucket is being accessed frequently then we can leave it as it is, otherwise we can move the files to infrequent access storage class thus can save some money.
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Ruffyit
1 year, 1 month ago
S3 Storage Lens is a fully managed S3 storage analytics solution that provides a comprehensive view of object storage usage, activity trends, and recommendations to optimize costs. Storage Lens allows you to analyze object access patterns across all of your S3 buckets and generate detailed metrics and reports.
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TariqKipkemei
1 year, 2 months ago
Selected Answer: A
Amazon S3 Storage Lens was designed to handle this requirement.
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Wayne23Fang
1 year, 3 months ago
Selected Answer: D
A missed turning on monitoring. It can also help you learn about your customer base and understand your Amazon S3 bill. By default, Amazon S3 doesn't collect server access logs. When you enable logging, Amazon S3 delivers access logs for a source bucket to a target bucket that you choose. I could not find that S3 storage Lens examples online showing using Lens to identify idle S3 buckets. Instead I find using S3 Access Logging. Hmm.
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pentium75
12 months ago
How will you find when a bucket was used the last time if you turn on logging NOW?
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Guru4Cloud
1 year, 3 months ago
Selected Answer: A
S3 Storage Lens is a cloud-storage analytics feature that provides you with 29+ usage and activity metrics, including object count, size, age, and access patterns. This data can help you understand how your data is being used and identify areas where you can optimize your storage costs. The S3 Storage Lens dashboard provides an interactive view of your storage usage and activity trends. This makes it easy to identify buckets that are no longer being accessed or are rarely accessed. The S3 Storage Lens dashboard is a fully managed service, so there is no need to set up or manage any additional infrastructure.
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BigHammer
1 year, 3 months ago
"S3 Storage Lens" seems to be the popular answer, however, where in Storage Lens can you see if a bucket/object is being USED? I see all kinds of stats, but not that.
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MatAlves
3 months, 2 weeks ago
"S3 Storage Lens delivers organization-wide visibility into object storage usage, activity trends, and makes actionable recommendations to optimize costs..."
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Guru4Cloud
1 year, 3 months ago
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/s3-storage-lens/
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kruasan
1 year, 7 months ago
Selected Answer: A
The S3 Storage Lens dashboard provides visibility into storage metrics and activity patterns to help optimize storage costs. It shows metrics like objects added, objects deleted, storage consumed, and requests. It can filter by bucket, prefix, and tag to analyze specific subsets of data
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kruasan
1 year, 7 months ago
B) The standard S3 console dashboard provides basic info but would require manually analyzing metrics for each bucket. This does not scale well and requires significant overhead. C) Turning on the BucketSizeBytes metric and analyzing the data in Athena may provide insights but would require enabling metrics, building Athena queries, and analyzing the results. This requires more operational effort than option A. D) Enabling CloudTrail logging and monitoring the logs in CloudWatch Logs could provide access pattern data but would require setting up CloudTrail, monitoring the logs, and analyzing the relevant info. This option has the highest operational overhead
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LuckyAro
1 year, 10 months ago
Selected Answer: A
S3 Storage Lens provides a dashboard with advanced activity metrics that enable the identification of infrequently accessed and unused buckets. This can help a solutions architect optimize storage costs without incurring additional operational overhead.
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Babba
1 year, 10 months ago
Selected Answer: A
it looks like it's A
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