AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional SAP-C01 – Question860

A company's lease of a colocated storage facility will expire in 90 days. The company wants to move to AWS to avoid signing a contract extension. The company's environment consists of 200 virtual machines and a NAS with 40 TB of data. Most of the data is archival, yet instant access is required when data is requested. Leadership wants to ensure minimal downtime during the migration. Each virtual machine has a number of customized configurations. The company's existing 1 Gbps network connection is mostly idle, especially after business hours.
Which combination of steps should the company take to migrate to AWS while minimizing downtime and operational impact? (Choose two.)

A.
Use new Amazon EC2 instances and reinstall all application code.
B. Use AWS SMS to migrate the virtual machines.
C. Use AWS Storage Gateway to migrate the data to cloud-native storage.
D. Use AWS Snowball to migrate the data.
E. Use AWS SMS to copy the infrequently accessed data from the NAS.

Correct Answer: AD

Explanation: