Design high-performing architectures
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Design high-performing architectures: example questions & answers
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A global application needs to serve static content with the lowest possible latency to users worldwide. Which AWS service should be used?
- AAmazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
- BAmazon CloudFront✓
- CAWS Global Accelerator
- DElastic Load Balancing
Answer: Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network that caches static content at edge locations close to users, reducing latency for global content delivery.
A read-heavy application experiences high load on its RDS database due to repeated read queries. Which solution improves read performance MOST cost-effectively?
- AIncrease the instance storage size
- BAdd RDS read replicas✓
- CEnable Multi-AZ deployment
- DSwitch to a larger single instance only
Answer: RDS read replicas offload read traffic from the primary database, scaling read capacity horizontally and improving performance for read-heavy workloads.