Correct Answer: To encrypt sensitive data fields (like credit card numbers) at the edge before the request reaches the origin
Field-level encryption provides an extra layer of security by ensuring that only specific applications at the origin can decrypt certain data....
Correct Answer
To encrypt sensitive data fields (like credit card numbers) at the edge before the request reaches the origin
Why This Answer Is Correct
Field-level encryption provides an extra layer of security by ensuring that only specific applications at the origin can decrypt certain data.
This question evaluates your knowledge of Amazon CloudFront — a core concept tested in AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03). Understanding Amazon CloudFront is essential for designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures. Mastery of this topic will help you answer scenario-based questions confidently on exam day.
Your media company streams video content to users globally. Users in different regions are experiencing high latency. You need to improve performance by caching content closer to the users. Which service should you implement?
A company wants to serve content from an S3 bucket via Amazon CloudFront and ensure that users can ONLY access the bucket through CloudFront, not via direct S3 URLs. How should this be implemented?
An architect needs to run custom code at the CloudFront edge locations to personalize content for different user devices. Which two services can be used?
What is 'Cache Invalidation' in the context of CloudFront?
To improve the cache hit ratio for a CloudFront distribution that serves dynamic content, which strategy should be used?