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SOA-C02 · Question #632

A web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in the us-east-1 Region and the us-west-2 Region. The instances run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in each Region. An Amazon Route 53 hosted…

The correct answer is A. Implement a Route 53 health check and a failover routing policy for the hosted zone. Configure. Using a Route 53 failover routing policy with a health check for the primary us-east-1 resources ensures that traffic automatically fails over to the us- west-2 disaster recovery resources only when the primary resources become unhealthy. This approach meets the requirement…

Submitted by jordan8· Mar 30, 2026Reliability and Business Continuity

Question

A web application runs on Amazon EC2 instances in the us-east-1 Region and the us-west-2 Region. The instances run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in each Region. An Amazon Route 53 hosted zone controls DNS records. The instances in us-east-1 are production resources. The instances in us-west-2 are for disaster recovery. EC2 Auto Scaling groups are configured based on the ALBRequestCountPerTarget metric in both Regions. A SysOps administrator must implement a solution that provides failover from us-east-1 to us- west-2. The instances in us-west-2 must be used only for failover. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options

  • AImplement a Route 53 health check and a failover routing policy for the hosted zone. Configure
  • BImplement a Route 53 health check and a latency routing policy for the hosted zone. Configure
  • CIn us-east-1, create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that enters ALARM state when an EC2
  • DIn us-west-2, create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that enters ALARM state when resources in

How the community answered

(46 responses)
  • A
    80% (37)
  • B
    13% (6)
  • C
    4% (2)
  • D
    2% (1)

Explanation

Using a Route 53 failover routing policy with a health check for the primary us-east-1 resources ensures that traffic automatically fails over to the us- west-2 disaster recovery resources only when the primary resources become unhealthy. This approach meets the requirement with minimal configuration overhead.

Topics

#Route 53 failover routing#health check#disaster recovery#multi-region

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