AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty (ANS-C00) — Question 339

A department in your company has created a new account that is not part of the organization's consolidated billing family. The department has also created a VPC for its workload. Access is restricted by network access control lists to the department's on-premises private IP allocation. An AWS Direct Connect private virtual interface for this VPC advertises a default route to the company network. When the department downloads data from an Amazon EC2 instance in its new VPC, what are the associated charges?

Answer options

• A. The company pays Internet Data Out charges.
• B. The company pays AWS Direct Connect Data Out charges.
• C. The department pays Internet Data Out charges.
• D. The department pays AWS Direct Connect Data Out charges.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

Because the department's AWS account is not linked to the organization's consolidated billing, any charges incurred are billed directly to the department's account rather than the parent company. Furthermore, because traffic is routed over an AWS Direct Connect private virtual interface due to the advertised default route, the transfer is billed as AWS Direct Connect Data Out rather than standard Internet Data Out. Thus, the department is responsible for the AWS Direct Connect Data Out charges.