AWS SAP-C02 · Question 56 · Domain 1.3: Reliable Architectures
A company is designing a multi-region active-passive architecture for a critical web application. The primary region is us-east-1, and the disaster recovery region is us-west-2. The application uses Amazon EC2, an Application Load Balancer (ALB), and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The company wants to automate the failover process so that if the primary region goes down, traffic is automatically routed to the DR region. Which combination of steps should the Architect take? (Select TWO)
A company is designing a multi-region active-passive architecture for a critical web application. The primary region is us-east-1, and the disaster recovery region is us-west-2. The application uses Amazon EC2, an Application Load Balancer (ALB), and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. The company wants to automate the failover process so that if the primary region goes down, traffic is automatically routed to the DR region. Which combination of steps should the Architect take? (Select TWO)
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Configure Amazon Route 53 with a failover routing policy, pointing the primary record to the us-east-1 ALB and the secondary record to the us-west-2 ALB.
Create Route 53 health checks that monitor the health of the primary ALB and associate them with the primary DNS record.
Configure AWS Global Accelerator with endpoint groups in both regions and set the traffic dial for us-west-2 to 0%.
Use Amazon CloudFront with an origin group containing the ALBs from both regions.
Configure an AWS Lambda function triggered by CloudWatch alarms to manually update the Route 53 DNS records.
Set up VPC Peering between the two regions and use an ALB in us-east-1 to route traffic to us-west-2.
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