CLF-C02 Question 210
Single answerA company wants to route users to their application hosted on multiple AWS regions to ensure low latency and high availability. Which service should they use to manage the DNS routing for their application?
- A
Amazon Route 53
- B
Amazon CloudFront
- C
Amazon EC2
- D
AWS Direct Connect
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
Amazon Route 53 is specifically designed for DNS routing and traffic management, making it the ideal choice for a company that needs to route users to application endpoints in multiple AWS regions. It provides features like latency-based routing, geolocation routing, and health checks, ensuring low latency and high availability.
- A. Correct.
Amazon Route 53 is a scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service that allows you to route users to different AWS resources (such as applications hosted in multiple regions) based on routing policies and achieve low latency and high availability.
- B. Incorrect.
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service used to distribute content globally with low latency. While it improves performance, it does not handle DNS routing.
- C. Incorrect.
Amazon EC2 is a compute service for running applications but does not manage DNS routing or traffic distribution.
- D. Incorrect.
AWS Direct Connect is a network service that provides a dedicated connection between on-premises environments and AWS but does not handle DNS routing or traffic management.