Correct Answer: Yes, if the VPCs are peered or connected via Transit Gateway
ALB can route to targets using their IP addresses, which can be in a connected VPC or on-premises....
Correct Answer
Yes, if the VPCs are peered or connected via Transit Gateway
Why This Answer Is Correct
ALB can route to targets using their IP addresses, which can be in a connected VPC or on-premises.
This question evaluates your knowledge of Application Load Balancer — a core concept tested in AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03). Understanding Application Load Balancer is essential for designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures. Mastery of this topic will help you answer scenario-based questions confidently on exam day.
You need to route traffic to Amazon EC2 instances based on URL paths (e.g., '/api' vs '/static'). Which load balancer type should you use?
A company has a microservices architecture and wants to route requests to different target groups based on the URL path (e.g., /orders vs /users). Which load balancer type is best suited for this?
What is 'Sticky Sessions' (Session Affinity) in the context of an ALB?
Which ALB feature allows for serverless integration by routing requests to AWS Lambda functions?
A company wants to authenticate users via Google or Facebook before they can access the application behind the ALB. How can this be done at the load balancer level?