To protect against an entire regional outage, an architect decides to maintain a 'Multi-Region Active-Active' architecture for their web application. Which service is essential for globally distributing and load-balancing traffic across regions?

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Correct Answer: Global Load Balancer (or Route 53 with Traffic Flow)

Route 53 with Traffic Flow (and multi-region routing policies like Latency or Geoproximity) is the standard for distributing traffic between active regions....

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To protect against an entire regional outage, an architect decides to maintain a 'Multi-Region Active-Active' architecture for their web application. Which service is essential for globally distributing and load-balancing traffic across regions?

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Correct Answer

Global Load Balancer (or Route 53 with Traffic Flow)

Why This Answer Is Correct

Route 53 with Traffic Flow (and multi-region routing policies like Latency or Geoproximity) is the standard for distributing traffic between active regions.

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