A media company keeps rendered video masters that are read back roughly once a month for re-editing, and it wants the lowest-cost Cloud Storage class that still suits that access pattern without incurring an unusually long minimum storage commitment. Which storage class fits this workload?
- AStandard storage, because it has no minimum storage duration and imposes no retrieval fees, which suits any object that might be touched during a given month.
- BColdline storage, because monthly reads are infrequent enough that its 90-day minimum storage duration and lower price make it the cheapest safe choice here.
- CArchive storage, because rendered masters are long-lived and its 365-day minimum storage duration delivers the lowest at-rest price for retained content.
- DNearline storage, because it targets data accessed less than once a month while keeping a 30-day minimum storage duration and modest retrieval costs. Correct
Why A is wrong: Standard is designed for frequently accessed or hot data and carries the highest at-rest price, so paying for it when objects are read only monthly wastes money even though its access terms are permissive.
Why B is wrong: Coldline suits data touched roughly once a quarter, and its 90-day minimum duration would penalise objects re-edited every 30 days with early-deletion charges, so it is a poor fit for a monthly cycle.
Why C is wrong: Archive targets data accessed less than once a year for backup or preservation, and its 365-day minimum duration plus higher retrieval cost make monthly re-editing expensive despite the low storage price.
Why D is correct: Nearline is built for data read about once a month or less, and its 30-day minimum duration aligns with a monthly re-edit cycle while giving a lower at-rest price than Standard.