A law firm is running a web application on AWS. The system manages legal documents uploaded by users, and stores the documents in Amazon S3. Users have complained that file uploads are taking too long and there are timeouts during peak usage. A DevOps engineer found that web servers are managing concurrent uploads and are overloaded. Which actions should be taken to troubleshoot the issue in the MOST cost-effective manner?
A) Create an AWS CloudFront distribution in front of the web servers, and modify the application to upload to Amazon S3 using S3 Transfer Acceleration.
B) Modify the application so the browser uses a signed URL to directly upload to Amazon S3 using multipart uploads.
C) Create an AWS CloudFront distribution in front of the web servers, and modify the application to store files in Amazon EFS in the Max I/O performance mode.
D) Place the web servers in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group to include Spot Instances and modify the application to upload to Amazon S3 using multipart uploads.

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CloudFront can cache the static content, reducing the load on the web servers. S3 Transfer Acceleration optimizes the transfer of data to S3, reducing upload times.

A Law Firm Is Running a Web Application on AWS