Question in Set 2 about CloudSearch

[rob-stewart]

Question States:

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An international humanitarian aid organization has a requirement to store 20 TB worth of scanned files for their relief operations which can grow to up to a total of 50 TB of data. There is also a requirement to have a search feature in place that can be used to easily find a certain item through the thousands of scanned files. The new system is expected to run for more than 3 years.

Which of the following is the most cost-effective option in implementing the search feature in their system?

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The correct answer is:
Set up a new S3 bucket with standard storage to store and serve the scanned files. Use CloudSearch for query processing and use Elastic Beanstalk to host the website across multiple availability zones.

I understand why this is the correct answer. However, according to this article it is essential to put something in place to populate the Index:
https://www.searchtechnologies.com/amazon-cloudsearch-s3-buckets

With this in mind, perhaps a slight adjustment to this response would make it clearer:

Set up a new S3 bucket with standard storage to store and serve the scanned files. Use CloudSearch for query processing, use S3 events and Lambda to populate the CloudSEarch index, and use Elastic Beanstalk to host the website across multiple availability zones.

I’m saying this because I selected the other answer about EFS because I figured a third party search solution would be able to crawl attached storage which would not be possible with the combination of S3 and Cloudsearch unless there was some mechanism in play to actually index the content.

Thanks

[TutorialsDojo-Support]

Hello rob,

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