Question

A media company runs a photo-sharing platform where users across Asia, Europe, and South America upload large image and video files to a single Amazon S3 bucket hosted in the us-east-1 Region. Users far from us-east-1 report slow and unreliable uploads over the public internet. The team wants to significantly improve upload throughput for these distant users with minimal application changes. What should the solutions architect recommend?

Accepted Answer

Enable S3 Transfer Acceleration on the bucket and have clients upload through the accelerated endpoint.

Answer

Enable S3 Cross-Region Replication to copy objects to Regions closer to each group of users.

Answer

Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution in front of the bucket and have users download through the CDN.

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Deploy AWS Storage Gateway file gateways in each Region and have users write to the local gateway.