AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 407

An e-commerce company hosts its website on the AWS us-west-1 region. It plans to create a special site for a promotion that should be visible only to shoppers from Canada.
What change should the SysOps Administrator make to the company's existing AWS setup to achieve this result?

Answer options

• A. Update the Amazon Route 53 record set to use a latency routing policy for the new site
• B. Update the Application Load Balancer with a new host-based routing rule for the new site
• C. Update the Amazon Route 53 record set to use a geolocation routing policy for the new site
• D. Update the Application Load Balancer with a new path-based routing rule for the new site

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Amazon Route 53 geolocation routing lets you choose the resources that serve your traffic based on the geographic location of your users, making it the ideal choice to restrict the promotional site to shoppers in Canada. Latency routing determines destination based on network performance rather than geographic location, while Application Load Balancer rules route traffic based on HTTP headers or paths rather than the client's geographic region.