A company has five VPCs in us-east-1. An internal web app runs in us-east-1. VPC-A must connect to an external partner's AWS environment in the same Region; the partner's VPC is VPC-B. Both VPC-A and VPC-B use the same IP range, so the company's EC2 instances in VPC-A cannot directly reach the partner's application. The solution must not disrupt either party's existing environment. Which two actions should the network engineer take? (Choose two.)
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Correct answer: Ensure the partner creates a VPC endpoint service that uses a Network Load Balancer in VPC-B., Deploy a VPC endpoint in VPC-A that uses a VPC endpoint service that is shared by the partner..
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The correct actions leverage AWS PrivateLink to establish private connectivity without overlapping IP address concerns. The partner creates a VPC endpoint service in VPC-B, fronted by a Network Load Balancer (NLB), which exposes their application. The company then creates a VPC endpoint in VPC-A, connecting to this shared service. This allows instances in VPC-A to access the partner's application in VPC-B using private IP addresses, bypassing the overlapping CIDR blocks. VPC peering is not suitable because it requires non-overlapping CIDR blocks. Adding a secondary CIDR block to both VPCs and using a NAT gateway would be complex and disruptive, requiring re-IPing resources or complex routing. A Site-to-Site VPN is designed for connecting on-premises networks to AWS VPCs, not for VPC-to-VPC communication within the same region, and would also face routing challenges with overlapping CIDRs.
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