Question

A cloud engineer is provisioning resources for a new analytics platform. Application servers in a private subnet must pull large datasets from a managed object storage service in the same cloud region. During a cost review, the team notices high charges for traffic routed through the NAT gateway. Which change to the resource provisioning should the engineer make to reduce these data transfer costs while keeping the servers private?

Accepted Answer

Provision a gateway VPC endpoint for the object storage service and update route tables to direct traffic to it

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Assign public IP addresses to the application servers so they access object storage directly over the internet

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Increase the NAT gateway bandwidth tier to handle the object storage traffic more efficiently

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Move the object storage bucket to a different region closer to the application servers