A statewide portal needs improved global network performance using AWS’s anycast edge network to steer users to optimal endpoints. Which service awareness item fits?
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Short Explanation
Global Accelerator is like express lanes on AWS's worldwide highway—users hit anycast entry points and get steered toward healthy, closer endpoints. Macie finds sensitive data, Artifact shares compliance docs, and QuickSight is BI dashboards—not a network accelerator.
Full Explanation
A statewide portal that needs improved global network performance using AWS’s anycast edge network to steer users to optimal endpoints should identify AWS Global Accelerator. Global Accelerator provides static anycast IP addresses and routes traffic over the AWS global network to healthy Regional endpoints, improving availability and performance for TCP/UDP applications. That fits statewide portals when the goal is network-path acceleration to Regional applications rather than only caching static HTTP objects.
Amazon Macie discovers and classifies sensitive data in Amazon S3; it is not a global anycast TCP accelerator. AWS Artifact delivers compliance reports and agreements, not an edge performance routing fabric. Amazon QuickSight is a business intelligence service for dashboards; it is not a network accelerator for TCP/UDP applications.
Exam caveat: Anycast plus AWS global network steering to Regional endpoints → Global Accelerator. Cached HTTP content at edges → CloudFront. Choose based on whether the stem emphasizes network acceleration to apps or content caching.
Operational check: create an accelerator pointing at Regional load balancers for the statewide portal, configure endpoint group health checks, update DNS to the anycast addresses, measure inter-region latency and error rates before and after, and retain CloudFront where static or cacheable HTTP assets still benefit from CDN behavior.