A media company serves large video files directly from an Amazon S3 bucket to users globally. Their AWS bill shows massive Data Transfer Out costs. What is the MOST cost-effective way to reduce these data transfer costs?

Answer options:

Enable S3 Transfer Acceleration.

Implement Amazon CloudFront and use the S3 bucket as the origin.

Move the S3 bucket to a different AWS Region.

Use AWS Global Accelerator.

How to approach this question

Look for the CDN service.

Full Answer

B.Implement Amazon CloudFront and use the S3 bucket as the origin.✓ Correct

Implement Amazon CloudFront and use the S3 bucket as the origin.

Amazon CloudFront caches content at edge locations. Data transfer from S3 to CloudFront is free, and serving data from CloudFront is generally more cost-effective than serving directly from S3.

Common mistakes

Choosing Transfer Acceleration, which actually costs extra.

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