A company runs a popular web application in an on-premises data center. The application receives four million views weekly. The company expects traffic to increase by 200% because of an…

While Amazon CloudFront can decrease load by caching static and dynamic content, Global Accelerator specifically focuses on optimizing the network path and offloading connection processing at Layer 4 using the AWS global network, which is often more comprehensive for a sudden, large increase in general application traffic and network load to an on-premises origin.

CloudFront with RTMP streaming is a specialized solution for media streaming, which is not applicable to a general web application that needs to handle increased HTTP/S traffic.

AWS Global Accelerator optimizes user traffic routing to the on-premises application endpoint over the high-performance AWS global network. By terminating user connections at the AWS edge and forwarding them via the optimized backbone, it effectively offloads network processing, reduces latency, and manages connection spikes, thereby significantly decreasing the direct network load on the on-premises origin servers during a massive traffic increase.

This option is a duplicate of C and provides the same correct solution for the problem statement.