Correct Answer: To provide an additional caching layer between the edge locations and the origin to reduce the load on the origin
Origin Shield collapses multiple edge cache misses into a single request to the origin, improving availability and reducing cost....
Correct Answer
To provide an additional caching layer between the edge locations and the origin to reduce the load on the origin
Why This Answer Is Correct
Origin Shield collapses multiple edge cache misses into a single request to the origin, improving availability and reducing cost.
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?
What is the purpose of 'Field-Level Encryption' in Amazon CloudFront?
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?