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SOA-C02 · Question #365

A company hosts its website on Amazon EC2 instances in the us-east-1 Region. The company is preparing to extend its website into the eu-central-1 Region, but the database must remain only in…

The correct answer is A. Create a VPC peering connection between the two Regions. Add the private IP address range of. VPN options are out of the question. We are left with add the IP address or a security group rule, but since you cannont create a security group rule that references a peer VPC security group, than the answer is clearly A…

Submitted by lucia.co· Mar 30, 2026Networking and Content Delivery

Question

A company hosts its website on Amazon EC2 instances in the us-east-1 Region. The company is preparing to extend its website into the eu-central-1 Region, but the database must remain only in us-east-1. After deployment, the EC2 instances in eu-central-1 are unable to connect to the database in us-east-1. What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that will resolve this connectivity issue?

Options

  • ACreate a VPC peering connection between the two Regions. Add the private IP address range of
  • BCreate a VPC peering connection between the two Regions. Add the security group of the
  • CCreate a VPN connection between the two Regions. Add the private IP address range of the
  • DCreate a VPN connection between the two Regions. Add the security group of the instances in

How the community answered

(27 responses)
  • A
    78% (21)
  • B
    4% (1)
  • C
    7% (2)
  • D
    11% (3)

Explanation

VPN options are out of the question. We are left with add the IP address or a security group rule, but since you cannont create a security group rule that references a peer VPC security group, than the answer is clearly A. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/peering/vpc-peering-security-groups.html

Topics

#VPC peering#cross-region connectivity#security groups#inter-region routing

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