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An organization is deploying a new, online digital bank and needs to ensure availability and performance. The cloud-based architecture is deployed using PaaS and SaaS solutions, and it was designed with the following considerations:
- Protection from DoS attacks against its infrastructure and web applications is in place.
- Highly available and distributed DNS is implemented.
- Static content is cached in the CDN.
- A WAF is deployed inline and is in block mode.
- Multiple public clouds are utilized in an active-passive architecture.
With the above controls in place, the bank is experiencing a slowdown on the unauthenticated payments page.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

A. A DDoS attack is targeted at the CDN.

B. The public cloud provider is applying QoS to the inbound customer traffic.

C. The site is experiencing a brute-force credential attack.

D. The API gateway endpoints are being directly targeted.

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