A Company Hosts Its Website on Amazon S3

question 41

Multiple Choice

A company hosts its website on Amazon S3. The website serves petabytes of outbound traffic monthly, which accounts for most of the company's AWS costs. What should a solutions architect do to reduce costs?

• A) Configure Amazon CloudFront with the existing website as the origin.
• B) Move the website to Amazon EC2 with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes for storage.
• C) Use AWS Global Accelerator and specify the existing website as the endpoint.
• D) Rearchitect the website to run on a combination of Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda.

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Definitions:

Straight-Line Method

A method of calculating depreciation of an asset by evenly distributing its cost over the useful life of the asset.

Scrap Value

The estimated resale value of an asset at the end of its useful life, typically considered as salvage value.

Double-Declining-Balance

A method of accelerated depreciation which doubles the regular depreciation rate, reducing the value of an asset more quickly in its early years.

Scrap Value

The estimated value that an asset will realize upon its sale at the end of its useful life, typically a minimal amount reflecting its residual value.