A compliance archive stores legal documents accessed at most once per quarter. Which Cloud Storage class minimizes storage cost while meeting that access pattern?
Trap 1: Standard
Standard storage is optimized for frequently accessed ('hot') data — its higher per-GB cost makes it expensive for archival data.
Trap 2: Nearline
Nearline is designed for data accessed fewer than once per month. Quarterly access is infrequent enough that Coldline offers lower storage costs.
Trap 3: Archive
Archive has the lowest storage cost but a 365-day minimum storage duration and very high retrieval fees — more suited to data accessed once per year or less.
- A
Standard
Why wrong: Standard storage is optimized for frequently accessed ('hot') data — its higher per-GB cost makes it expensive for archival data.
- B
Nearline
Why wrong: Nearline is designed for data accessed fewer than once per month. Quarterly access is infrequent enough that Coldline offers lower storage costs.
- C
Coldline
Coldline is ideal for data accessed once per quarter or less. It offers low storage cost with a 90-day minimum storage duration, matching this use case.
- D
Archive
Why wrong: Archive has the lowest storage cost but a 365-day minimum storage duration and very high retrieval fees — more suited to data accessed once per year or less.