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ANS-C01 · Question #66

A company is hosting an application on Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). A solutions architect added EC2 instances in a second Availability Zone to improve the availability…

The correct answer is A. Enable the new Availability Zone on the NLB. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/network/network-load- balancers.html#availability-zones.

Submitted by tarun92· Mar 6, 2026Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions

Question

A company is hosting an application on Amazon EC2 instances behind a Network Load Balancer (NLB). A solutions architect added EC2 instances in a second Availability Zone to improve the availability of the application. The solutions architect added the instances to the NLB target group. The company's operations team notices that traffic is being routed only to the instances in the first Availability Zone. What is the MOST operationally efficient solution to resolve this issue?

Options

  • AEnable the new Availability Zone on the NLB
  • BCreate a new NLB for the instances in the second Availability Zone
  • CEnable proxy protocol on the NLB
  • DCreate a new target group with the instances in both Availability Zones

How the community answered

(63 responses)
  • A
    62% (39)
  • B
    10% (6)
  • C
    24% (15)
  • D
    5% (3)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/network/network-load- balancers.html#availability-zones.

Topics

#AWS NLB#NLB Availability Zones#Load balancer routing#High availability configuration

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