CLF-C02 Question 162
Single answerA global e-commerce company wants to improve the performance of their website for customers located across different continents. They are considering using AWS services to distribute their static and dynamic content, reduce latency, and provide a better experience for their users. Which AWS service or feature benefits them by leveraging edge locations?
- A
Amazon CloudFront
- B
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
- C
Amazon RDS
- D
AWS Global Accelerator
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
Amazon CloudFront is specifically designed to use edge locations to cache and deliver content closer to the end-users. This reduces latency and improves the performance of applications, making it an ideal solution for the given scenario.
- A. Correct.
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that uses edge locations to cache and deliver content closer to users, improving performance and reducing latency.
- B. Incorrect.
AWS Elastic Load Balancing is used to distribute incoming traffic across multiple targets like EC2 instances but does not leverage edge locations for content delivery.
- C. Incorrect.
Amazon RDS is a managed database service and does not provide functionality related to edge locations or content delivery.
- D. Incorrect.
AWS Global Accelerator improves global application availability and performance using the AWS global network but does not cache content or use edge locations for delivery.