Certified Cloud Security Engineer (CCSE) — Question 7

Thomas Gibson is a cloud security engineer working in a multinational company. Thomas has created a Route 53 record set from his domain to a system in Florida, and a similar record to machines in Paris and Singapore. Assume that network conditions remain unchanged and Thomas has hosted the application on Amazon EC2 instance; moreover, multiple instances of the application are deployed on different EC2 regions. When a user located in London visits Thomas’s domain, to which location does Amazon Route 53 route the user request?

Answer options

• A. Florida
• B. London
• C. Paris
• D. Singapore

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B because Amazon Route 53 uses latency-based routing and directs user requests to the nearest location, which in this case is London. The other options (Florida, Paris, and Singapore) are farther away from London, making them less optimal for routing user requests.