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Answer: An alias record
Amazon Route 53 alias records provide a specific extension to DNS functionality allowing routing to AWS resources like an Application Load Balancer. Additionally, standard DNS protocol does not allow you to create a CNAME record at the zone apex (e.g., example.com), but an Alias record can be mapped to the zone apex.
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Question #48
A company has a microservice that runs on a set of Amazon EC2 instances. The EC2 instances run behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). A CloudOps engineer must use Amazon Route 53 to create a record that maps the ALB URL to example.com. Which type of record will meet this requirement?
A
An A record
B
An AAAA record
C
An alias record
D
A CNAME record
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