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A financial trading company is using Amazon EC2 instances to run its trading platform. Part of the company's trading platform includes a third-party pricing service that the EC2 instances…

The correct answer is C. 1. Configure a traffic mirror filter to capture the UDP data. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/mirroring/traffic-mirroring-how-it-works.html

Submitted by jakub_pl· Mar 6, 2026

Question

A financial trading company is using Amazon EC2 instances to run its trading platform. Part of the company's trading platform includes a third-party pricing service that the EC2 instances communicate with over UDP on port 50000. Recently, the company has had problems with the pricing service. Some of the responses from the pricing service appear to be incorrectly formatted and are not being processed successfully. The third-party vendor requests access to the data that the pricing service is returning. The third- party vendor wants to capture request and response data for debugging by logging in to an EC2 instance that accesses the pricing service. The company prohibits direct access to production systems and requires all log analysis to be performed in a dedicated monitoring account. Which set of steps should a network engineer take to capture the data and meet these requirements?

Options

  • A
    1. Configure VPC flow logs to capture the data that flows in the VPC.
  • B
    1. Configure a traffic mirror filter to capture the UDP data.
  • C
    1. Configure a traffic mirror filter to capture the UDP data.
  • D
    1. Create a new Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. Attach the EBS volume to

How the community answered

(47 responses)
  • A
    30% (14)
  • B
    9% (4)
  • C
    49% (23)
  • D
    13% (6)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/mirroring/traffic-mirroring-how-it-works.html

Topics

#AWS Traffic Mirroring#Network troubleshooting#VPC traffic capture#Cross-account monitoring

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