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A company completed a successful Amazon Workspaces proof of concept. They now want to make Workspaceshighly available across two AWS Regions. Workspaces are deployed in the failover Region. A hosted…

The correct answer is A. Create a connection alias in the primary Region and in the failover Region. Associate each with a. To achieve high availability for Amazon WorkSpaces across two AWS Regions, WorkSpaces are deployed in both the primary and failover regions, and a Route 53 hosted zone is available.

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

Question

A company completed a successful Amazon Workspaces proof of concept. They now want to make Workspaceshighly available across two AWS Regions. Workspaces are deployed in the failover Region. A hosted zone is available in Amazon Route 53. What should the solutions architect do?

Options

  • ACreate a connection alias in the primary Region and in the failover Region. Associate each with a
  • BCreate a connection alias in both Regions. Associate both with a directory in the primary Region.
  • CCreate a connection alias in the primary Region. Associate with the directory in the primary
  • DCreate a connection alias in the primary Region. Associate it with the directory in the failover

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    71% (24)
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    3% (1)
  • C
    12% (4)
  • D
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Why each option

To achieve high availability for Amazon WorkSpaces across two AWS Regions, WorkSpaces are deployed in both the primary and failover regions, and a Route 53 hosted zone is available.

ACreate a connection alias in the primary Region and in the failover Region. Associate each with aCorrect

For multi-Region WorkSpaces deployments with high availability, a connection alias must be created in *each* Region (primary and failover) and then associated with the respective WorkSpaces directory in that specific Region. This setup allows users to connect to the nearest available WorkSpace and supports failover by directing traffic to the healthy Region.

BCreate a connection alias in both Regions. Associate both with a directory in the primary Region.

Associating connection aliases from both regions with a *single* directory in the primary region would not support multi-region high availability or failover, as the failover WorkSpaces would not be linked to their respective aliases.

CCreate a connection alias in the primary Region. Associate with the directory in the primary

Creating a connection alias only in the primary region and associating it with the primary directory would not provide a mechanism for users to connect to WorkSpaces in the failover region.

DCreate a connection alias in the primary Region. Associate it with the directory in the failover

Associating a connection alias in the primary region with a directory in the failover region is an incorrect configuration; connection aliases must be associated with a directory within the same region.

Concept tested: Multi-region Amazon WorkSpaces high availability

Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/workspaces/latest/adminguide/multi-region-resilience.html

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