Question 20
A team is choosing AWS services for a specific workload, the decisive constraint is: An EC2 instance cannot reach a different VPC even though the networks are peered. Which recommendation best addresses the actual bottleneck?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Verify both VPC route tables include the peer CIDR targets and allow traffic via security controls. Peering requires matching routes and security policies rather than automatic route propagation.
Incorrect Answers
Allocate nonoverlapping VPC CIDRs centrally using Amazon VPC IP Address Manager solves the related scenario A new cloud landing zone will grow across dozens of accounts with unpredictable subnet expansion; iPAM pools coordinate hierarchical address allocation and overlap prevention.
Although Place it in a private subnet with a route to a NAT gateway in a public subnet can be valid when A private EC2 workload must access software updates on the internet without accepting unsolicited inbound requests, it targets a different technical condition. NAT gateway provides outbound IPv4 translation without direct public inbound routing.
This alternative, Use a private translation or application proxy design rather than direct native VPC routing, is appropriate when Two acquired VPCs use overlapping private CIDR blocks and must exchange application data. VPC peering and Transit Gateway routing cannot transparently route overlapping address ranges.