AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Question 709

An ecommerce company wants to distribute traffic between the Amazon EC2 instances that host its website.

Which AWS service or resource will meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Application Load Balancer
• B. AWS WAF
• C. AWS CloudHSM
• D. AWS Direct Connect

Correct answer: A

Explanation

An Application Load Balancer is specifically designed to distribute incoming HTTP/HTTPS traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, to ensure high availability. AWS WAF is a web application firewall used to protect web applications from common web exploits, not for load balancing. AWS CloudHSM provides hardware security modules for cryptographic keys, and AWS Direct Connect establishes a dedicated network connection from on-premises to AWS.