AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 508

A SysOps Administrator is trying to set up an Amazon Route 53 domain name to route traffic to a website hosted on Amazon S3. The domain name of the website is www.anycompany.com and the S3 bucket name is anycompany-static. After the record set is set up in Route 53, the domain name www.anycompany.com does not seem to work, and the static website is not displayed in the browser.
Which of the following is a cause of this?

Answer options

• A. The S3 bucket must be configured with Amazon CloudFront first
• B. The Route 53 record set must have an IAM role that allows access to the S3 bucket
• C. The Route 53 record set must be in the same region as the S3 bucket
• D. The S3 bucket name must match the record set name in Route 53

Correct answer: C

Explanation

To successfully route traffic from Amazon Route 53 to an Amazon S3 static website bucket, the Route 53 record set and the S3 bucket must be located in the same region to resolve the alias correctly. If the regions do not match, Route 53 will not be able to point to the S3 website endpoint. Other options like requiring an IAM role for Route 53 or mandatory CloudFront integration are incorrect configuration requirements.