A company has two VPCs: Management and Production. The Management VPC connects to a single device in the data center via VPNs through a customer gateway. The Production VPC uses a virtual private gateway with two Direct Connect connections. The two VPCs communicate via a single VPC peering connection. What should a solutions architect do to mitigate any single point of failure in this architecture?
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Correct answer: Create a second set of VPN connections to the Management VPC from a second customer gateway device..
Why this is the answer
The current architecture has a single point of failure with the Management VPC's VPN connection to the data center. If the single customer gateway device or the VPN connection fails, the Management VPC loses connectivity to the data center. Creating a second set of VPN connections from a second customer gateway device provides redundancy. This ensures that if one VPN connection or customer gateway fails, the other can maintain connectivity, mitigating the single point of failure. Adding VPN connections between the Management and Production VPCs is unnecessary as they already communicate via VPC peering. Adding a second virtual private gateway to the Management VPC is incorrect because virtual private gateways are used for Direct
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