AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 272

A company needs a content delivery network that provides secure delivery of data, videos, applications, and APIs to users globally with low latency and high transfer speeds.

Which AWS service meets these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Amazon CloudFront
• B. Elastic Load Balancing
• C. Amazon S3
• D. Amazon Elastic Transcoder

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Amazon CloudFront is a highly secure web service designed specifically as a content delivery network (CDN) to distribute data, videos, and APIs globally with low latency. Elastic Load Balancing manages incoming application traffic, Amazon S3 acts as an object storage service, and Amazon Elastic Transcoder is used for media file conversion, none of which function as a global CDN.