SAA-C03 Question 124
Single answerYour company operates a global e-commerce platform hosted in an AWS Region. Customers across the globe report that the website is slow to load, especially when accessing large media files such as images and videos. You need to improve the performance for these customers while minimizing latency and reducing the load on your web servers. Which solution is the most appropriate to achieve this?
- A
Use AWS CloudFront to cache static content closer to users and serve it from edge locations.
- B
Migrate your application to another AWS Region closer to the majority of your customers.
- C
Enable Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration for your website.
- D
Deploy additional EC2 instances in multiple Regions to handle customer requests.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
AWS CloudFront is specifically designed to serve static and dynamic content through a global network of edge locations, significantly reducing latency for users worldwide. By caching content closer to the end-user, it minimizes the load on the origin servers and provides a seamless experience for customers regardless of their geographical location. This makes it the most appropriate solution for improving the performance of the global e-commerce platform.
- A. Correct.
This is the correct solution. AWS CloudFront is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that caches content at edge locations, reducing latency and improving performance for users around the world.
- B. Incorrect.
This is not the best solution because migrating to another AWS Region only benefits users near that Region, while users in other locations may still experience high latency.
- C. Incorrect.
Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration is designed to improve upload and download speeds to S3, but it is not suitable for caching and delivering static content globally.
- D. Incorrect.
Deploying additional EC2 instances in multiple Regions can be complex and costly. Additionally, it doesn't address the need to cache and deliver static content efficiently to users.