AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate SOA-C03 Practice Question
A company runs identical REST APIs in two AWS Regions, each behind its own Application Load Balancer (ALB). The networking team needs a single, fixed entry point that automatically routes each client to the Region with the lowest latency, retains the client IP address in back-end logs, and fails over quickly if a Region is unhealthy. Content caching is unnecessary. Which approach meets these goals with the least operational overhead?
Create an Amazon CloudFront distribution that uses the two ALBs as origins with caching disabled.
Configure an Amazon Route 53 latency-based routing policy with health checks pointing to each ALB DNS name.
Deploy AWS Global Accelerator and add both Regional ALB endpoints to separate endpoint groups.
Place the two ALBs behind an inter-Region Network Load Balancer configured with cross-zone load balancing.
AWS Global Accelerator provides two static anycast IP addresses that serve as a fixed entry point for users. It routes traffic over the AWS edge network to the closest healthy endpoint group using health checks and automatically fails over if a Region becomes unhealthy. Global Accelerator operates at layer 4, so it preserves the original source IP address, and it introduces no HTTP object caching. CloudFront is optimized for HTTP/HTTPS caching and does not preserve client IP addresses for ALB logs without additional headers. Route 53 latency-based routing can direct traffic but relies on DNS TTLs for failover and does not provide a single static IP. A Network Load Balancer cannot span multiple Regions. Therefore, Global Accelerator is the most suitable and low-maintenance choice.
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