AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty (ANS-C01) — Question 32

A company is deploying an application. The application is implemented in a series of containers in an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster. The company will use the Fargate launch type for its tasks. The containers will run workloads that require connectivity initiated over an SSL connection. Traffic must be able to flow to the application from other AWS accounts over private connectivity. The application must scale in a manageable way as more consumers use the application.
Which solution will meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Choose a Gateway Load Balancer (GLB) as the type of load balancer for the ECS service. Create a lifecycle hook to add new tasks to the target group from Amazon ECS as required to handle scaling. Specify the GLB in the service definition. Create a VPC peer for external AWS accounts. Update the route tables so that the AWS accounts can reach the GLB.
• B. Choose an Application Load Balancer (ALB) as the type of load balancer for the ECS service. Create path-based routing rules to allow the application to target the containers that are registered in the target group. Specify the ALB in the service definition. Create a VPC endpoint service for the ALB Share the VPC endpoint service with other AWS accounts.
• C. Choose an Application Load Balancer (ALB) as the type of load balancer for the ECS service. Create path-based routing rules to allow the application to target the containers that are registered in the target group. Specify the ALB in the service definition. Create a VPC peer for the external AWS accounts. Update the route tables so that the AWS accounts can reach the ALB.
• D. Choose a Network Load Balancer (NLB) as the type of load balancer for the ECS service. Specify the NLB in the service definition. Create a VPC endpoint service for the NLB. Share the VPC endpoint service with other AWS accounts.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D because a Network Load Balancer (NLB) is suitable for handling TCP traffic and can efficiently manage SSL connections while providing low latency. The other options either suggest using an Application Load Balancer, which is more suited for HTTP/HTTPS traffic but not optimal for SSL connectivity in this scenario, or introduce unnecessary complexity with VPC peering that does not align with the requirement for private traffic flow.