SOA-C03 · Question #53
A company needs to upload gigabytes of files daily to Amazon S3 and requires higher throughput and faster upload speeds. Which action should a CloudOps engineer take?
The correct answer is D. Enable S3 Transfer Acceleration and use the acceleration endpoint when uploading files. The AWS Cloud Operations and Storage documentation confirms that S3 Transfer Acceleration is designed to increase upload speed for objects transferred to S3 buckets over long distances. It uses AWS Global Edge Network and Amazon CloudFront edge locations to route data through…
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A company needs to upload gigabytes of files daily to Amazon S3 and requires higher throughput and faster upload speeds. Which action should a CloudOps engineer take?
Options
- ACreate an Amazon CloudFront distribution with the GET HTTP method allowed and the S3 bucket
- BCreate an Amazon ElastiCache cluster and enable caching for the S3 bucket.
- CSet up AWS Global Accelerator and configure it with the S3 bucket.
- DEnable S3 Transfer Acceleration and use the acceleration endpoint when uploading files.
How the community answered
(19 responses)- A11% (2)
- C5% (1)
- D84% (16)
Explanation
The AWS Cloud Operations and Storage documentation confirms that S3 Transfer Acceleration is designed to increase upload speed for objects transferred to S3 buckets over long distances. It uses AWS Global Edge Network and Amazon CloudFront edge locations to route data through optimized network paths, reducing latency and achieving higher throughput compared to standard After enabling Transfer Acceleration on the bucket, users upload files to the accelerated endpoint (e.g., bucketname.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com). This feature requires no changes to application logic besides endpoint modification and provides immediate performance CloudFront (Option A) is for content delivery, not uploads. ElastiCache (Option B) and Global Accelerator (Option C) are unrelated to S3 upload performance. Thus, Option D is correct -- enable S3 Transfer Acceleration for faster, optimized file uploads.
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