What is the primary purpose of Amazon CloudFront?
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Correct answer: Securely deliver data, video, applications, and APIs to users worldwide with low latency.
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Amazon CloudFront is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) service that securely delivers content (data, video, applications, and APIs) to users globally with high transfer speeds and low latency. It achieves this by caching content at edge locations close to your users, reducing the distance data needs to travel. The incorrect options describe other AWS services: Automatic scaling from a single interface relates more to AWS Auto Scaling or AWS Organizations for consolidated management, not CloudFront's core function. Managing global DNS traffic with various routing types is the primary purpose of Amazon Route 53. Distributing incoming application traffic across multiple targets is the function of Elastic Load Balancing (ELB).
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