AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 39

A company's customers are reporting increased latency while accessing static web content from Amazon S3. A SysOps Administrator observed a very high rate of read operations on a particular S3 bucket.
What will minimize latency by reducing load on the S3 bucket?

Answer options

• A. Migrate the S3 bucket to a region that is closer to end users' geographic locations.
• B. Use cross-region replication to replicate all of the data to another region.
• C. Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution with the S3 bucket as the origin.
• D. Use Amazon ElastiCache to cache data being served from Amazon S3.

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C because creating an Amazon CloudFront distribution will cache the static web content closer to the users, significantly reducing latency and offloading read requests from the S3 bucket. Option A may help but does not directly address the high read operations, while option B adds complexity without reducing latency effectively. Option D introduces caching but isn't optimal for static content served from S3.