Design Resilient Architectures Practice Question

Question

For an ecommerce platform, an architect is reviewing Route 53 failover routing requirement set 8. Which design choice best fits the requirement while following AWS architectural best practices?

Answer choices

1. A. Place all components on a single large instance to simplify troubleshooting.
2. B. Use long-lived access keys in application configuration so services can call AWS APIs directly.
3. C. Disable monitoring until the workload reaches steady production traffic.
4. D. Send traffic to a healthy endpoint when the primary endpoint fails.

Correct Answer

D. Send traffic to a healthy endpoint when the primary endpoint fails.

Explanation

The best answer applies Route 53 failover routing: send traffic to a healthy endpoint when the primary endpoint fails. The other options increase operational risk, weaken security, or remove observability that an AWS Solutions Architect should preserve.

Question details

• Difficulty: hard
• Domain: Design Resilient Architectures
• Objective: Route 53 failover routing

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