A company's website provides downloadable historical performance reports. The solution must scale globally, be cost-effective, minimize infrastructure provisioning, and provide the fastest possible response times. Which combination should a solutions architect recommend?

Amazon CloudFront and Amazon S3 is the optimal combination. Amazon S3 provides highly durable, scalable, and cost-effective object storage for the historical performance reports. CloudFront, a global content delivery network (CDN), caches these reports at edge locations worldwide, ensuring the fastest possible response times for global users and minimizing latency. This serverless approach also eliminates the need for infrastructure provisioning and management, aligning with the requirement to minimize infrastructure. AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB are suitable for serverless application logic and NoSQL data storage, not primarily for serving static downloadable files globally. Application Load Balancer with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is designed for dynamic web applications running on EC2 instances, which involves significant infrastructure provisioning and management, and may not offer the lowest latency for global static content delivery compared to a CDN. Amazon Route 53 with internal Application Load Balancers is used for DNS routing and load balancing within a VPC, not for global content delivery or cost-effective static file hosting.