Question

As a developer, you have enabled server logging on an S3 bucket. You have a simple static web page with CSS pages uploaded to the bucket which is 1 MB in total size.

After a duration of 2 weeks, you come back and see that the size of the bucket has increased to 50MB.

Which of the following could be a reason for this?

A. You have enabled CRR on the bucket as well. That is why the space is being consumed.

B. You have enabled Encryption on the bucket as well. That is why the space is being consumed.

C. Server access logs are configured to be delivered to the same bucket as the source bucket.

D. Monitoring has been enabled for the bucket.

Answer 1

Answer - C.

An S3 bucket with server access logging enabled can accumulate many server log objects over time.

Your application might need these access logs for a specific period after creation, and after that, you might want to delete them.

You can use the Amazon S3 lifecycle configuration to set rules so that Amazon S3 automatically queues these objects for deletion at the end of their life.

The correct answer is.

C.

This is normal behavior since the logs are being delivered to the same bucket.

Option A is incorrect because CRR (Cross-region replication) does not consume space in the S3 bucket.

Option B is incorrect because encryption does not consume space.

Option D is incorrect because monitoring and logging are two different things.