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    PracticeAWS Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C02)AWS Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 Practice Exam 5Question 09
    Medium1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 1.3: Reliable ArchitecturesReliabilityGlobal AcceleratorMulti-Region

    AWS SAP-C02 · Question 09 · Domain 1.3: Reliable Architectures

    A company is designing a multi-region active-active architecture for a latency-sensitive API. The API is backed by AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway. Data is stored in Amazon DynamoDB. Users should be routed to the closest region, but if a region fails, traffic must automatically failover to the healthy region. Which routing solution provides the FASTEST failover and lowest latency?

    Answer options:

    A.

    Use AWS Global Accelerator with custom routing to API Gateway endpoints in both regions.

    B.

    Use Amazon Route 53 with latency-based routing and Route 53 health checks.

    C.

    Deploy Amazon CloudFront with an origin group containing the API Gateways from both regions.

    D.

    Use an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in a central region to route traffic to Lambda functions in multiple regions.

    How to approach this question

    Compare DNS-based routing (Route 53) with Anycast IP routing (Global Accelerator) for failover speed.

    Full Answer

    A.Use AWS Global Accelerator with custom routing to API Gateway endpoints in both regions.✓ Correct
    AWS Global Accelerator provides two static IP addresses that act as a fixed entry point to your application. It uses endpoint health checks to instantly route traffic away from unhealthy applications, achieving failover in seconds without relying on DNS TTL expiration.

    Common mistakes

    Choosing Route 53, forgetting that DNS caching on client devices can delay failover.
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