Data must stay in one country for compliance. What do you control?
Why D is the answer
The AWS Region where it is stored
Region choice controls where data resides.
In detail
- The Region decides where data is stored.
- Check replication settings too.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
A German firm must keep data in the country, so it stores data in the Frankfurt Region.
See it in different ways
mindmap
root((Data security))
Identity
IAM roles
Secrets Manager
Fine-grained access
Lake Formation
Column grants
Encryption
SSE-KMS
Discovery
Macie
Audit
CloudTrailflowchart TD
Q{"Is the data required to stay in one country?"}
Q -->|"Yes"| A0["Choose a Region there"]
Q -->|"No"| A1["Choose by latency and cost"]Key point: The Region controls where data resides.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. The S3 storage class
- Storage class does not set location.
- B. The Spark version
- Spark version is unrelated.
- C. The Lifecycle rule on the bucket
- A Lifecycle rule does not set location.