Question 10
During an architecture migration cutover planning meeting, the decisive constraint is: The company requires encrypted traffic over a dedicated Direct Connect circuit without an additional application tunnel. What should the architect implement?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Evaluate Direct Connect MACsec on supported dedicated ports and locations. MACsec encrypts layer-2 frames on supported dedicated Direct Connect connections.
Incorrect Answers
This alternative, Use a Direct Connect gateway with an appropriate Transit Gateway association, is appropriate when A central network team needs to connect many VPCs over a common Direct Connect deployment. A Direct Connect gateway supports scalable private connectivity to multiple AWS VPC networks.
Provision an AWS Direct Connect connection and private virtual interface to the VPC transit design solves the related scenario A data center needs consistent private connectivity to AWS that bypasses the public internet; direct Connect provides a dedicated network path rather than an internet-based encrypted tunnel.
Although Configure an AWS Site-to-Site VPN as a secondary hybrid path with BGP route preference can be valid when The dedicated hybrid connection is healthy but a regional routing disruption requires automatic backup, it targets a different technical condition. The VPN offers an alternate encrypted path if the preferred Direct Connect route is unavailable.