A company runs BIND-based custom DNS servers in a central VPC to provide name resolution for VPCs across multiple AWS accounts in the same AWS Organization. All VPCs are attached to a transit gateway. The central BIND servers forward queries for an on-premises DNS domain to DNS servers in the on-premises data center. Each VPC has a DHCP options set that points to the custom DNS servers so all VPCs use them. Multiple development teams need to use Amazon EFS. One team created a new EFS file system but an EC2 instance cannot mount it because the instance cannot resolve fs-33444567d.efs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com. What combination of actions will allow development teams across the organization to mount EFS file systems? (Choose two.)
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Correct answer: Create an Amazon Route 53 Resolver outbound endpoint in the central VPC. Update all the VPC DHCP options sets to use AmazonProvidedDNS for name resolution., Create an Amazon Route 53 Resolver rule that forwards queries for the on-premises domain to the on-premises DNS servers. Share the rule with the organization using AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM), and associate the rule with all VPCs..
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The correct options enable EFS resolution and maintain on-premises connectivity. Updating DHCP options sets to use AmazonProvidedDNS (169.254.169.253) allows VPCs to resolve AWS service endpoints like EFS. To continue resolving on-premises domains, a Route 53 Resolver outbound endpoint is needed in the central VPC, along with a Resolver rule that forwards on-premises queries to the on-premises DNS servers. Sharing this rule via AWS RAM and associating it with all VPCs ensures consistent on-premises resolution across the organization. Configuring BIND to forward efs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com to 169.254.169.253 is incorrect because 169.254.169.253 is the IP for the Amazon-provided DNS resolver, not a specific EFS endpoint. An inbound endpoint is for on-premises to AWS resolution, not AWS to AWS or AWS to on-premises. A private hosted zone for efs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com is not the standard or scalable solution for EFS resolution and would require manual updates for each EFS file system.
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