SAP-C02 Design for New Solutions Practice Question
A company is designing a new web application that will run on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The application must handle millions of requests per day. To reduce latency and offload traffic from the EC2 instances, which AWS service should be placed in front of the load balancer?
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Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Amazon CloudFront
CloudFront is a CDN that caches content at edge locations, reducing latency and offloading traffic. Option B is wrong because Global Accelerator improves performance via AWS global network but does not cache. Option C is wrong because Shield Advanced is for DDoS protection. Option D is wrong because WAF is a web application firewall.
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Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Amazon CloudFront
Why this is correct
CloudFront caches content at edge locations, reducing latency and offloading EC2 instances.
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AWS Global Accelerator
Why it's wrong here
Global Accelerator improves network performance but does not cache content.
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AWS Shield Advanced
Why it's wrong here
Shield provides DDoS protection, not caching.
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AWS WAF
Why it's wrong here
WAF is a web application firewall, not a caching layer.
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