AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 Practice Question
A company runs a latency-sensitive SaaS application that streams real-time market data to customers over WebSocket connections. All traffic is routed through an internet-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB) in us-east-1. Performance reports show a 95th-percentile round-trip latency of about 400 ms for users in Singapore and Sydney. The operations team must reduce latency for those users as quickly as possible, keep the workload in a single AWS Region, and avoid any application code changes. Which solution will most effectively meet these requirements?
Provision a second ALB in ap-southeast-1 and use Amazon Route 53 latency-based DNS records to direct users.
Configure AWS Global Accelerator and add the existing ALB as a standard accelerator endpoint.
Deploy reverse-proxy EC2 instances in Regions closest to users that tunnel traffic back to the ALB.
Place an Amazon CloudFront distribution in front of the ALB, forward all viewer headers, and disable caching.
AWS Global Accelerator lets clients enter the AWS network at the nearest edge location and then routes traffic over AWS's private backbone to the ALB endpoint, reducing internet hops and TCP handshake time without requiring changes to the application code or additional Regional infrastructure. CloudFront can improve some dynamic traffic but is optimized for caching and still requires header configuration; it offers less benefit for purely uncached WebSocket streams. Adding a second Regional ALB with Route 53 latency-based routing breaks the single-Region constraint and introduces data-consistency challenges. Deploying custom reverse-proxy EC2 instances adds operational overhead and does not provide the global, anycast entry points or health-based routing that Global Accelerator offers.
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