A financial company is planning to migrate its web application from on premises to AWS. The company uses a third-party security tool to monitor the inbound traffic to the application. The company has used the security tool for the last 15 years, and the tool has no cloud solutions available from its vendor. The company's security team is concerned about how to integrate the security tool with AWS technology. The company plans to deploy the application migration to AWS on Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances will run in an Auto Scaling group in a dedicated VPC. The company needs to use the security tool to inspect all packets that come in and out of the VPC. This inspection must occur in real time and must not affect the application's performance. A solutions architect must design a target architecture on AWS that is highly available within an AWS Region. Which combination of steps should the solutions architect take to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
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Reference / correct answer:
Provision a Gateway Load Balancer for each Availability Zone to redirect the traffic to the security tool
Most accepted answer: D. Provision a Gateway Load Balancer for each Availability Zone to redirect the traffic to the security tool
Community votes: A=9, B=1, D=16, E=6
Selected Answer: DE Based on the scenario in question, the requirement is that the security tool will run in an auto scaling group in a dedicated VPC this cannot be changed. This will break Option A. If we look at the usage for the Gateway Load Balancer which is the key for the solution where application cannot have performance hits if you are inspecting the traffic, so you need to TAP the traffic to move into another third-party tool. In the references you will find below the transit gateway will facilitate the VPC-to-VPC communication and as you can see, the security appliances VPC is a segregated from the application VPC, so again, option A is NOT valid. https://catalog.workshops.aws/networking/en-US/gwlb https://www.fortinet.com/blog/business-and-technology/highly-scalable-fortigate-next-generation-firewall-security-on-aws-gateway-load-balancer-service upvoted 26 times
Selected Answer: AD Option B, deploying the web application behind a Network Load Balancer, is not relevant to integrating the third-party security tool with AWS technology. Option C, deploying an Application Load Balancer in front of the security tool instances, is not necessary because a Gateway Load Balancer is already being used to redirect traffic to the security tool. Option E, provisioning a transit gateway to facilitate communication between VPCs, is not relevant to integrating the third-party security tool with AWS technology or inspecting packets in and out of the VPC. In summary, options A and D are the best choices because address the specific requirements stated in the scenario while options B, C and E do not. upvoted 24 times deegadaze1 3 years, 2 months ago Correct for GLB---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j2smz_VCH4 upvoted 2 times ... 43c89f4 2 years, 3 months ago DE is correct, the question clearly mention which combination - GWLB and provision transit gateway is solution upvoted 4 times Chris_W_1234 9 months, 3 weeks ago I wouldn't exactly say the question *clearly* mentions this... but I interpret "dedicated VPC for the application" as, the security tools shall *not* run in the same VPC. Ergo, multiple VPCs are in play, and the TGW makes a lot of sense then. I vote DE. upvoted 1 times ... ...
Correct for GLB---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j2smz_VCH4 upvoted 2 times
DE is correct, the question clearly mention which combination - GWLB and provision transit gateway is solution upvoted 4 times Chris_W_1234 9 months, 3 weeks ago I wouldn't exactly say the question *clearly* mentions this... but I interpret "dedicated VPC for the application" as, the security tools shall *not* run in the same VPC. Ergo, multiple VPCs are in play, and the TGW makes a lot of sense then. I vote DE. upvoted 1 times ...
I wouldn't exactly say the question *clearly* mentions this... but I interpret "dedicated VPC for the application" as, the security tools shall *not* run in the same VPC. Ergo, multiple VPCs are in play, and the TGW makes a lot of sense then. I vote DE. upvoted 1 times