Determine High-Performing And / Or Scalable Network Architectures

Exam Guide: Solutions Architect - Associate ⚡ Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures 📘 Task Statement 3.4 🎯 Determining High-Performing And / Or Scalable Network Architectures is about designing networks that: 1 Perform well: low latency, high throughput, predictable routing 2 Scale cleanly: more users, more subnets, more Regions 3 Support common patterns: multi-tier, hybrid, global 4 Use the right “front door”: CloudFront/ALB/API Gateway and the right connectivity (VPN/DX/PrivateLink) Start with where users are (global vs regional), then pick the ingress pattern, then design the VPC topology, then pick connectivity and load balancing. Knowledge 1 | Edge Networking Services CloudFront & Global Accelerator 1.1 Amazon CloudFront (CDN) Use CloudFront when you need: 1 Lower latency for global users: cache close to them 2 Reduced load on origins: cache + compression 3 Better security integrations: WAF, Shield, TLS 4 Static content acceleration: and some dynamic acceleration pa