AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 815

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 automatically routes incoming HTTP/HTTPS traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances to optimize availability and fault tolerance. AWS WAF is a web application firewall used for security filtering, AWS CloudHSM manages cryptographic keys, and AWS Direct Connect provides a dedicated network link from on-premises to AWS, meaning none of these alternative options are designed for load balancing.