A company runs its sales reporting application in an AWS Region in the United States. The application uses an Amazon API Gateway Regional API and AWS Lambda functions to generate on-demand reports from data in an Amazon RDS for MySQL database. The frontend of the application is hosted on Amazon S3 and is accessed by users through an Amazon CloudFront distribution. The company is using Amazon Route 53 as the DNS service for the domain. Route 53 is configured with a simple routing policy to route traffic to the API Gateway API. In the next 6 months, the company plans to expand operations to Europe. More than 90% of the database traffic is read-only traffic. The company has already deployed an API Gateway API and Lambda functions in the new Region. A solutions architect must design a solution that minimizes latency for users who download reports. Which solution will meet these requirements?
Select one answer.
Marked answer: C
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Option C creates a cross-Region read replica of the RDS database in the new Region, which allows users to access and download reports from a database that is closer to their location. The read-only traffic makes this solution suitable, as it does not require any write operations on the secondary database. Configuring latency-based routing on Route 53 directs users to the closest available API Gateway API based on their geolocation, which minimizes latency for report downloads.
