AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional — Question 40

A web company is looking to implement an intrusion detection and prevention system into their deployed VPC. This platform should have the ability to scale to thousands of instances running inside of the VPC.
How should they architect their solution to achieve these goals?

Answer options

• A. Configure an instance with monitoring software and the elastic network interface (ENI) set to promiscuous mode packet sniffing to see an traffic across the VPC.
• B. Create a second VPC and route all traffic from the primary application VPC through the second VPC where the scalable virtualized IDS/IPS platform resides.
• C. Configure servers running in the VPC using the host-based 'route' commands to send all traffic through the platform to a scalable virtualized IDS/IPS.
• D. Configure each host with an agent that collects all network traffic and sends that traffic to the IDS/IPS platform for inspection.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Option B is correct because creating a second VPC allows for effective traffic routing and scalability of the IDS/IPS solution. Options A, C, and D do not provide the scalability required for thousands of instances or involve complex configurations that could lead to performance issues in a large environment.