AmazonAmazon Advanced Networking Specialty ANS-C01 Certification·EN·Updated 3 Aug 2026
A company has a Direct Connect connection from a US on-prem data center to a transit gateway in us-east-1 using a transit VIF. A new Europe data center in England will connect to workloads in a VPC in eu-west-2 using Direct Connect. The company needs full connectivity between the data centers and Regions with the lowest latency. How should the network be designed?
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Correct answer: Connect the VPC in eu-west-2 to a new transit gateway. Connect the Europe data center to the new transit gateway by using a Direct Connect gateway and a new transit VIF. Associate the transit gateway in us-east-1 with the same Direct Connect gateway. Enable SiteLink for both transit VIFs. Peer the two transit gateways..
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The correct option establishes a new transit gateway in eu-west-2 for the Europe data center and VPC, connecting the data center via a Direct Connect gateway and transit VIF. Both the us-east-1 and eu-west-2 transit gateways are associated with the same Direct Connect gateway, allowing direct connectivity between the data centers. Enabling SiteLink on both transit VIFs optimizes data center-to-data center traffic over the AWS global network, providing lower latency than routing through a VPC. Finally, peering the two transit gateways enables full connectivity between the VPCs in both regions.
Incorrect options either use a private VIF, which does not support SiteLink for data center-to-data center connectivity, or propose creating multiple Direct Connect gateways, which is unnecessary and adds complexity when a single DXGW can connect to multiple transit gateways.