A company has an on-premises data center and needs a consistent, low-latency connection to its AWS VPC. The company expects to transfer large amounts of data regularly. The company wants to minimize data transfer costs over the long term. What should the company do?

Use an AWS Direct Connect connection.

Use a transit gateway with a VPN attachment.

Use a VPC endpoint for the on-premises data center.

Use an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection.

A company has a web server that experiences low CPU usage but high network throughput. Which instance type should be selected to optimize costs?

A compute-optimized instance with high CPU performance

A network-optimized instance with high network bandwidth

A general-purpose instance with balanced resources

A memory-optimized instance with large RAM

A company runs a web application that uses HTTP/HTTPS and requires advanced routing features like path-based routing. Which load balancer type is most appropriate and cost-effective for this use case?

Application Load Balancer (ALB)

How can using an alias record in Amazon Route 53 help reduce costs?

Alias records can reduce the number of DNS queries by providing native integration with AWS resources, avoiding extra hops.

Alias records can route traffic to AWS resources without incurring data transfer costs.

Alias records allow you to point to AWS resources without paying for the underlying resource.

Alias records are free, while standard records incur a per-query charge.

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A company has an on-premises data center and needs a consistent, low-latency connection to its AWS VPC. The company expects to transfer large amounts of data regularly. The company wants to minimize data transfer costs over the long term. What should the company do?
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A company has a web server that experiences low CPU usage but high network throughput. Which instance type should be selected to optimize costs?
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A company runs a web application that uses HTTP/HTTPS and requires advanced routing features like path-based routing. Which load balancer type is most appropriate and cost-effective for this use case?
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How can using an alias record in Amazon Route 53 help reduce costs?
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