AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)Cloud Technology and ServicesHard
A media company is launching a new video streaming platform and anticipates millions of concurrent viewers during peak events. They need a service that can deliver video content globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, and automatically scale to handle massive traffic spikes. Which AWS service is purpose-built for this use case?
- AAmazon Kinesis Video Streams
- BAmazon EC2
- CAmazon CloudFront
- DAmazon S3
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Correct answer: C. Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront is a highly scalable content delivery network (CDN) that accelerates the delivery of static and dynamic web content, including video streams, to millions of concurrent users globally with low latency and high transfer speeds, automatically scaling to handle traffic spikes.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams is for securely streaming video from connected devices to AWS for analytics, machine learning, and playback, not for global distribution of pre-recorded or live streaming to end-users.
- B. Amazon EC2 provides virtual servers for hosting applications, but managing a global video streaming platform with millions of concurrent users on EC2 alone would be complex and inefficient without a CDN.
- D. Amazon S3 is an object storage service, suitable for storing video files, but does not provide the global low-latency content delivery and caching capabilities needed for streaming to millions.
Amazon CloudFront for Video Streaming
A global content delivery network (CDN) that accelerates the delivery of video content to millions of concurrent viewers with low latency and high transfer speeds.
- Global content delivery network (CDN)
- Optimized for video streaming
- Low latency and high transfer speeds
- Automatically scales for massive traffic spikes
Memory trick: CloudFront's edge, video's delight, millions stream, day and night.