AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Question 498

A company hosts a web application on AWS. The company has improved the availability of its application by provisioning multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The company wants to distribute its traffic across the EC2 instances while providing a single point of contact to the web clients.

Which AWS service can distribute the traffic to multiple EC2 instances as targets?

Answer options

• A. VPC endpoints
• B. Application Load Balancer
• C. NAT gateway
• D. Internet gateway

Correct answer: B

Explanation

An Application Load Balancer is designed to distribute incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, while serving as a single point of contact for clients. VPC endpoints are used for private connectivity to AWS services, whereas NAT gateways and Internet gateways manage subnet external routing rather than load balancing.