A company wants to maintain bandwidth throughput and provide a more consistent network experience than public internet-based connections. Which AWS service should the company choose?

Question

Options

• AAWS VPN
• BAWS Direct Connect
• CAmazon Connect
• DAmazon CloudFront

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  95% (37)
• C
  3% (1)

Explanation

AWS Direct Connect provides a dedicated, private network connection between an organization's on-premises environment and AWS, bypassing the public internet entirely. This dedicated link guarantees consistent bandwidth throughput and lower latency, making it ideal when a company needs a reliable, predictable network experience - exactly what the question describes.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A. AWS VPN still routes traffic over the public internet, meaning throughput and latency can fluctuate - it does not solve the consistency problem.
• C. Amazon Connect is a cloud-based contact center service for customer communications, completely unrelated to network connectivity.
• D. Amazon CloudFront is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that caches content at edge locations to improve delivery speed, but it does not provide a dedicated private connection.

Memory Tip: Think of Direct Connect = Direct Line - just like a dedicated landline phone is more reliable than a cellular call over a crowded network, Direct Connect gives you a private, dedicated "line" to AWS that avoids public internet congestion. If a question mentions "consistent," "dedicated," or "bypassing the public internet," Direct Connect is almost always the answer.

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