A company is migrating some of its consumer-facing services to a cloud provider. The company has been getting more customers since its competitors have gone bankrupt. Which of the following actions…

Increasing network bandwidth to 10Gbps addresses the network pipe capacity but does not resolve compute or application-layer bottlenecks caused by a larger user base hitting cloud-hosted services.

Load balancers sit at the ingress of cloud-hosted services and distribute incoming requests across multiple server instances, preventing bottlenecks and enabling the infrastructure to scale horizontally as the customer base expands. Installing additional load balancers directly supports the higher throughput volumes that result from increased consumer demand without requiring changes to the underlying server fleet or network capacity.

Deploying additional web servers adds compute capacity but without sufficient load balancing to distribute traffic, those servers cannot be utilized effectively, making load balancers the prerequisite architectural component.

Deploying a local on-premises database introduces latency and a potential single point of failure between cloud-hosted services and the datacenter, which would degrade performance rather than improve it.