A company is launching an ecommerce site in an AWS Region in France and wants only users located in France to reach the initial release. Later releases will expand to additional countries. Which Route 53 routing policy configuration enforces access from France only?
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Correct answer: Use a geolocation routing policy and select France as the location for the DNS record..
Why this is the answer
A geolocation routing policy allows you to route traffic based on the geographic location of your users. By selecting France as the location for the DNS record, only users originating from France will be directed to the ecommerce site. This directly addresses the requirement to restrict access to users in France. Geoproximity routing policies route traffic based on the geographic location of your resources and optionally, your users, but it's designed for routing users to the nearest resource or for biasing traffic, not for strict country-based access control. An IP-based routing policy (which isn't a standard Route 53 policy type, though IP-based routing can be achieved with other services like AWS WAF) or attempting to list all IP ranges for France would be impractical and difficult to maintain due to the dynamic nature of IP address assignments and the sheer volume of IP ranges.
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