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DOP-C02 · Question #427

A global company uses Amazon S3 to host its product catalog website in the us-east-1 Region. The company must improve website performance for users across different geographical regions and must…

The correct answer is B. Enable S3 replication between the S3 bucket in us-east-1 and the S3 bucket in the different. To achieve a highly available cross-Region solution for a static website hosted in S3 and fronted by CloudFront, enabling S3 Cross-Region Replication is the least operational effort for ensuring data availability in other regions.

Submitted by yasin.bd· Mar 6, 2026Reliability & Resilience

Question

A global company uses Amazon S3 to host its product catalog website in the us-east-1 Region. The company must improve website performance for users across different geographical regions and must reduce the load on the origin server. The company must implement a highly available cross-Region solution that uses Amazon CloudFront. Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?

Options

  • ASet up multiple CloudFront distributions. Point each distribution to another S3 bucket in a different
  • BEnable S3 replication between the S3 bucket in us-east-1 and the S3 bucket in the different
  • CEnable CloudFront with Origin Shield in us-east-1. Configure global edge locations. Set up cache
  • DEnable CloudFront with Origin Shield in us-east-1. Configure Amazon ElastiCache clusters in
  • EEnable CloudFront with Origin Shield in the eu-west-1 Region. Configure Regional edge caches.

How the community answered

(21 responses)
  • B
    71% (15)
  • C
    14% (3)
  • D
    5% (1)
  • E
    10% (2)

Why each option

To achieve a highly available cross-Region solution for a static website hosted in S3 and fronted by CloudFront, enabling S3 Cross-Region Replication is the least operational effort for ensuring data availability in other regions.

ASet up multiple CloudFront distributions. Point each distribution to another S3 bucket in a different

Setting up multiple CloudFront distributions, each pointing to a different S3 bucket, would significantly increase operational effort and is not necessary for a single global website using CloudFront.

BEnable S3 replication between the S3 bucket in us-east-1 and the S3 bucket in the differentCorrect

Enabling S3 replication between the origin S3 bucket in us-east-1 and an S3 bucket in another AWS Region provides a highly available cross-Region solution for the website content with minimal operational effort, ensuring data durability and availability even if the primary region experiences an outage.

CEnable CloudFront with Origin Shield in us-east-1. Configure global edge locations. Set up cache

CloudFront Origin Shield enhances caching efficiency and reduces origin load, but it does not inherently provide cross-Region origin availability in case of a complete regional outage of the primary S3 bucket.

DEnable CloudFront with Origin Shield in us-east-1. Configure Amazon ElastiCache clusters in

Amazon ElastiCache is an in-memory caching service typically used for dynamic application data or database offloading, making it irrelevant for a static S3 product catalog website fronted by CloudFront.

EEnable CloudFront with Origin Shield in the eu-west-1 Region. Configure Regional edge caches.

Enabling CloudFront Origin Shield in a region far from the primary origin (eu-west-1 for a us-east-1 origin) is inefficient, and Regional edge caches are an inherent part of CloudFront's architecture, not a configurable solution for cross-region availability.

Concept tested: CloudFront, S3 Cross-Region Replication, High Availability for static websites

Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/crr.html

Topics

#CloudFront#S3 Replication#High Availability#CDN

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