A SysOps administrator needs to design a high-traffic static website. The website must be highly available and must provide the lowest possible latency to users across the globe. Which solution will…

Question

Options

• ACreate an Amazon S3 bucket, and upload the website content to the S3 bucket.
• BCreate an Amazon S3 bucket, and upload the website content to the S3 bucket.
• CCreate an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and a target group.
• DCreate an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and a target group in two Regions.

• A
  94% (15)
• C
  6% (1)

Explanation

Option A likely represents S3 paired with Amazon CloudFront (a CDN) - the canonical AWS solution for globally distributed static websites. CloudFront caches content at edge locations worldwide, delivering the lowest possible latency to users regardless of geography, while S3 provides durable, highly available object storage with no servers to manage.

Option B (S3 alone, without CloudFront) fails the latency requirement because all requests route back to a single S3 bucket region, adding round-trip distance for international users.

Options C and D are wrong because ALBs are designed for dynamic, compute-backed workloads (EC2, ECS, Lambda), not static file hosting - they add unnecessary cost and complexity. Even two-region ALB (D) doesn't match the global edge coverage CloudFront provides.

Memory tip: For any exam question combining "static website + global + low latency," the answer is almost always S3 + CloudFront. Think of it as the AWS static site stack - S3 stores, CloudFront delivers.

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