SAA-C03 Q268 · Cost

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A company hosts a website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The website serves static content. Website traffic is increasing. The company wants to minimize the website hosting costs. Which solution will meet these requirements?

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**Answer A: S3 + CloudFront** satisfies every requirement:

1. **Static content hosting**: Amazon S3 is purpose-built for hosting static websites (HTML, CSS, JS, images). No server management is needed — you simply upload files to a bucket and enable static website hosting.

2. **Minimize costs**: This eliminates EC2 instances (hourly compute charges) and the ALB (hourly charge + LCU charges). S3 storage costs are extremely low ($0.023/GB/month for Standard), and you only pay for GET requests. CloudFront further reduces costs by caching content at edge locations, which **reduces the number of requests hitting S3** and also **reduces data transfer costs** (CloudFront data transfer is cheaper than S3 direct data transfer).

3. **Handles increasing traffic**: CloudFront is a global CDN with 4

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