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ANS-C01 · Question #21

A company's network engineer needs to design a new solution to help troubleshoot and detect network anomalies. The network engineer has configured Traffic Mirroring. However, the mirrored traffic is…

The correct answer is C. Deploy a Gateway Load Balancer (GLB) as the traffic mirror target. Behind the GLB. deploy a. This scenario is the typical use case for a Gateway Load Balancer. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/gateway/introduction.html

Submitted by anjalisingh· Mar 6, 2026Design Complex Network Solutions

Question

A company's network engineer needs to design a new solution to help troubleshoot and detect network anomalies. The network engineer has configured Traffic Mirroring. However, the mirrored traffic is overwhelming the Amazon EC2 instance that is the traffic mirror target. The EC2 instance hosts tools that the company's security team uses to analyze the traffic. The network engineer needs to design a highly available solution that can scale to meet the demand of the mirrored traffic. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options

  • ADeploy a Network Load Balancer (NLB) as the traffic mirror target. Behind the NLB. deploy a fleet
  • BDeploy an Application Load Balancer (ALB) as the traffic mirror target. Behind the ALB, deploy a
  • CDeploy a Gateway Load Balancer (GLB) as the traffic mirror target. Behind the GLB. deploy a
  • DDeploy an Application Load Balancer (ALB) with an HTTPS listener as the traffic mirror target.

How the community answered

(33 responses)
  • A
    9% (3)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    70% (23)
  • D
    18% (6)

Explanation

This scenario is the typical use case for a Gateway Load Balancer. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/gateway/introduction.html

Topics

#AWS Traffic Mirroring#Gateway Load Balancer#Network Security Scaling#High Availability Design

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