Question

A media company hosts a marketing microsite that consists entirely of static HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and image files. Traffic is highly unpredictable, occasionally spiking to millions of requests during product launches. The company currently runs the site on a single EC2 instance behind an Application Load Balancer and wants a solution that requires no server management, scales automatically to any load, and minimizes cost. Which architecture should the solutions architect recommend?

Accepted Answer

Store the static files in an Amazon S3 bucket configured for static website hosting and serve them globally through Amazon CloudFront.

Answer

Deploy the site across an Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones behind the existing Application Load Balancer.

Answer

Migrate the site to a container running on Amazon ECS with Fargate and place it behind a Network Load Balancer.

Answer

Run the site on a larger EC2 instance type with an attached provisioned IOPS EBS volume to handle traffic spikes.