A company has built a serverless electronic document management system in the eu-central-1 Region. The web app is delivered via an Amazon CloudFront distribution with an Amazon S3 origin. The app calls Amazon API Gateway Regional endpoints, which invoke AWS Lambda functions that store metadata in an Amazon Aurora Serverless database and place documents into an S3 bucket. The company needs to reduce latency for users outside Europe. Which two actions will improve global latency? (Choose two.)
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Correct answer: Enable S3 Transfer Acceleration on the S3 bucket and ensure the web application uses the Transfer Acceleration signed URLs., Change the API Gateway Regional endpoints to use edge-optimized endpoints..
Why this is the answer
Enabling S3 Transfer Acceleration improves upload and download speeds for users geographically distant from the S3 bucket by routing data through CloudFront's edge locations. The web application must be updated to use the Transfer Acceleration endpoint to benefit. Changing API Gateway Regional endpoints to edge-optimized endpoints leverages CloudFront's global network to route requests to the nearest edge location, reducing latency for users worldwide before forwarding to the regional API Gateway. Creating an accelerator with AWS Global Accelerator and attaching it to CloudFront is incorrect because CloudFront already uses AWS's global network for content delivery; Global Accelerator would be redundant for the CloudFront distribution itself. Provisioning the entire application stack in multiple regions is a valid strategy for global availability but is a much more complex and costly solution than simply optimizing existing services for latency. Inserting an Amazon RDS Proxy between Lambda and Aurora Serverless primarily helps with connection management and pooling, not global latency for end-users.
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