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AWS SAA-C03 · Question 53 · Domain 3.1: Storage Performance
An application downloads large video files from Amazon S3. Users often skip to the middle of a video. To improve performance and reduce data transfer, the application should only download the specific portion of the file being requested. How can this be achieved?
An application downloads large video files from Amazon S3. Users often skip to the middle of a video. To improve performance and reduce data transfer, the application should only download the specific portion of the file being requested. How can this be achieved?
Answer options:
A.
Use S3 Select.
B.
Use S3 Multipart Download.
C.
Use S3 Byte-Range Fetches.
D.
Use Amazon CloudFront with media streaming enabled.
How to approach this question
Identify the HTTP feature supported by S3 to download partial files.
Full Answer
C.Use S3 Byte-Range Fetches.✓ Correct
Use S3 Byte-Range Fetches.
Using the HTTP Range header in a GET request, you can download a specific range of bytes from an object stored in Amazon S3. This is known as a Byte-Range Fetch and is ideal for video streaming.
Common mistakes
Confusing S3 Select (data filtering) with Byte-Range Fetches (binary file chunking).
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