A global film production company utilizes the AWS Cloud for encoding and storing video content prior to distribution. Its three global offices are connected to the us-east-1 Region via AWS Site-to-Site VPN links that terminate on a transit gateway with BGP routing enabled.

The company has recently begun producing higher-resolution content to support 8K streaming, resulting in content files that are three times larger than those from the previous format. Uploads of these files to Amazon EC2 instances now take 10 times longer than before.

Which two actions should a network engineer recommend to decrease the upload times?