A Company Has an Application with Users in Both Australia

question 605

Multiple Choice

A company has an application with users in both Australia and Brazil. All the company infrastructure is currently provisioned in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia, and Brazilian users are experiencing high latency. What should the company do to reduce latency?

• A) Implement AWS Direct Connect for users in Brazil
• B) Provision resources in the South America (São Paulo) Region in Brazil
• C) Use AWS Transit Gateway to quickly route users from Brazil to the application
• D) Launch additional Amazon EC2 instances in Sydney to handle the demand

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