AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 Practice Question
A company is hosting a static website which experiences predictable traffic patterns, with slight increases in users during weekend hours. The website content is occasionally updated with new articles and images. The Solution Architect needs to determine the most cost-effective compute service to host this static website. Which of the following services should the Architect recommend?
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Use AWS Elastic Beanstalk to deploy and manage the static website on a single Amazon EC2 instance.
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Host the website on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and enable website hosting.
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Deploy the static website using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway to serve the content.
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Provision a t3.micro Amazon EC2 instance to serve the static website and use Auto Scaling to handle increases during weekends.
Amazon S3 is the most cost-effective service for hosting static websites. It provides scalability, high availability, and is more cost-efficient compared to using compute instances or containers for serving static content. There is no need for a traditional server setup, and it can handle the predictable traffic easily. Elastic Beanstalk, while capable of running static websites, includes additional infrastructure management that is not needed for static content, thereby increasing costs unnecessarily. AWS Lambda is meant for running code in response to events and is not a typical choice for hosting a full static website. Amazon EC2 instances would provide more capacity than required for static content, leading to higher costs.
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