A company is migrating Windows and Linux applications to AWS and will automate launching EC2 instances to match on-premises setups. Applications need shared storage accessible over SMB for Windows and NFS for Linux. The company is also creating a pilot-light DR environment in another Region and will automate launching EC2 instances there; storage must be replicated to the DR Region. Which storage solution meets these requirements?

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is the correct solution because it natively supports both SMB for Windows and NFS for Linux, fulfilling the shared storage requirements for both operating systems. It also supports NetApp SnapMirror, a robust replication technology that can be configured to replicate data from the primary Region to an FSx for ONTAP instance in the DR Region, meeting the disaster recovery requirement. Amazon S3 is incorrect because it is object storage and does not support SMB or NFS file protocols directly. Amazon EBS provides block storage for individual EC2 instances and does not offer shared file access across multiple instances via SMB or NFS. AWS Storage Gateway Volume Gateway provides block storage to on-premises applications and does not directly offer shared SMB/NFS file access for EC2 instances in the cloud, nor does it have a native CRR feature for the gateway itself.