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A media streaming company needs to store petabytes of video content that will be accessed frequently by millions of users worldwide. The content must be delivered with the lowest possible latency and high transfer speeds. The company wants to minimize data transfer costs while ensuring scalability. Which combination of AWS services should they use?
- AAmazon S3 Standard with S3 Transfer Acceleration
- BAmazon EBS volumes with EC2 instances
- CAmazon S3 Standard with Amazon CloudFront
- DAmazon S3 Glacier with Amazon CloudFront
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Correct answer: C. Amazon S3 Standard with Amazon CloudFront
Amazon S3 Standard provides highly durable, available, and scalable storage for frequently accessed video content. Amazon CloudFront, a Content Delivery Network (CDN), caches this content at edge locations worldwide, delivering it with low latency and high transfer speeds to global users, while also reducing overall data transfer costs from S3.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. S3 Transfer Acceleration speeds up uploads to S3, but doesn't optimize downloads or provide caching for global content delivery, which is critical for millions of users.
- B. Amazon EBS volumes are block storage attached to single EC2 instances, not suitable for storing petabytes of shared video content for millions of global users or for direct content delivery.
- D. S3 Glacier is for archival storage with retrieval times in hours, making it completely unsuitable for frequently accessed media streaming.
S3 Standard with CloudFront
Storing frequently accessed content in Amazon S3 Standard and distributing it globally via Amazon CloudFront provides low-latency delivery, high scalability, and reduced data transfer costs.
- S3 Standard for highly available, durable origin storage.
- CloudFront for global caching and low-latency delivery.
- Optimizes performance and reduces egress costs.
Memory trick: S3 holds the movies, CloudFront delivers the show worldwide.