What should a solutions architect do to accomplish this goal?
Create an S3 VPC endpoint for the bucket.
Configure the S3 bucket to be a Requester Pays bucket.
Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution in front of the S3 bucket.
Require that the files be accessible only with the use of the BitTorrent protocol.
Explanations:
Creating an S3 VPC endpoint allows for private access to S3 from within a VPC but does not directly affect cost for data access by other AWS accounts. It is primarily for securing access and does not reduce costs associated with data transfer.
Configuring the S3 bucket as a Requester Pays bucket means that the requester (i.e., the other AWS accounts accessing the data) will pay for the data transfer costs. This minimizes the costs for the company providing the data, as it shifts the financial burden of data access to the consumers of the data.
Creating an Amazon CloudFront distribution in front of the S3 bucket can improve performance and potentially reduce latency, but it adds additional costs for using CloudFront. It does not minimize the costs of making data available to other AWS accounts directly.
Requiring files to be accessible only through the BitTorrent protocol does not relate to AWS or S3 cost management. Moreover, it complicates access and does not address the goal of minimizing costs for making data available to other AWS accounts.
I evaluate that the answer is:
Configure the S3 bucket to be a Requester Pays bucket.