company manages the domain name example.com using Amazon Route 53. The company created an Amazon CloudFront distribution in front of the application and would like effective way to achieve this?

The correct answer is B. Create an ALIAS record in Amazon Route 53 that points to the CloudFront distribution URL. The most cost-effective and correct way is to create an ALIAS record in Amazon Route 53 that points to the CloudFront distribution’s domain name. ALIAS records work like CNAMEs but support the apex domain (e.g., example.com) and do not incur extra DNS query charges for AWS the…

Submitted by ricky.ec· Mar 4, 2026Design High-Performing Architectures

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ACreate a CNAME record in Amazon Route 53 that points to the CloudFront distribution URL.
BCreate an ALIAS record in Amazon Route 53 that points to the CloudFront distribution URL.
CCreate an A record in Amazon Route 53 that points to the public IP address of the web
DCreate a PTR record in Amazon Route 53 that points to the public IP address of the web

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The most cost-effective and correct way is to create an ALIAS record in Amazon Route 53 that points to the CloudFront distribution’s domain name. ALIAS records work like CNAMEs but support the apex domain (e.g., example.com) and do not incur extra DNS query charges for AWS the distribution efficiently.

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