An Application Accesses Data Through a File System Interface

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Multiple Choice

An application accesses data through a file system interface. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones, all of which must share the same data. While the amount of data is currently small, the company anticipates that it will grow to tens of terabytes over the lifetime of the application. What is the MOST scalable storage solution to fulfill the requirement?

• A) Connect a large Amazon EBS volume to multiple instances and schedule snapshots.
• B) Deploy Amazon EFS is in the VPC and create mount targets in multiple subnets.
• C) Launch an EC2 instance and share data using SMB/CIFS or NFS.
• D) Deploy an AWS Storage Gateway cached volume on Amazon EC2.

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