AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty ANS-C01 — Topic 1 Question 21

Question

A company’s network engineer needs to design a new solution to help troubleshoot and detect network anomalies. The network engineer has configured Traffic Mirroring. However, the mirrored traffic is overwhelming the Amazon EC2 instance that is the traffic mirror target. The EC2 instance hosts tools that the company’s security team uses to analyze the traffic. The network engineer needs to design a highly available solution that can scale to meet the demand of the mirrored traffic. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: A. The correct answer is A. Option A: Deploy a Network Load Balancer (NLB) as the traffic mirror target. Behind the NLB. deploy a fleet of EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. Use Traffic Mirroring as necessary. Auto Scaling adjusts capacity automatically to match demand, improving availability and cost efficiency. Amazon EC2 provides resizable virtual servers when you need full control of the operating system. A Network Load Balancer handles very high throughput TCP/UDP traffic with ultra-low latency and static IPs. By spanning multiple Availability Zones / adding redundancy, this option provides the high availability and resilience required.

AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty ANS-C01 — Question 21