Cloud File Storage Activation Target lets you publish segments . . .

• A. From Data Cloud to Amazon S3.
• B. Directly from Data Cloud to Marketing Cloud Business Units.
• C. So Salesforce Core apps can query.
• D. From Data Cloud to Google Cloud Storage

Answer: (A)

Cloud File Storage Activation Target is about exporting Data Cloud segments as files to an external storage service so downstream systems can consume them asynchronously. The destination is a cloud object store, and Amazon S3 is the storage endpoint used for this activation flow, which makes it the natural and supported target for publishing those segments. Publishing directly to Marketing Cloud Business Units isn’t a file-based export path, and Salesforce Core apps querying isn’t the purpose of this file-storage activation. While other cloud storage options exist in different contexts, the activation target described is specifically aligned with sending the segment files to Amazon S3.