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AWS SAA-C03 · Question 23 · Domain 2.1: Scalable Architectures

A company is migrating a legacy application to AWS. The application requires a load balancer that can handle millions of requests per second with ultra-low latency and must preserve the source IP address of the clients. Which TWO load balancing solutions meet these requirements? (Select TWO.)

Answer options:

A.

Application Load Balancer (ALB)

B.

Network Load Balancer (NLB)

C.

Classic Load Balancer (CLB)

D.

Amazon Route 53

E.

Global Accelerator

How to approach this question

Identify Layer 4 requirements: millions of requests, ultra-low latency, source IP preservation. NLB is the primary choice. Global Accelerator also preserves source IP and routes to endpoints.

Full Answer

Network Load Balancer (NLB), Global Accelerator
Network Load Balancer (NLB) operates at Layer 4 and preserves the source IP. AWS Global Accelerator also preserves source IP and provides ultra-low latency global routing.

Common mistakes

Choosing ALB, which terminates the connection and changes the source IP.

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