A company runs business applications on AWS across 50 accounts, thousands of VPCs, and three Regions in the US and Europe. The network engineer must provide connectivity from an on-premises data center to those Regions, and enable VPC-to-VPC traffic between Regions. The company already has an AWS Direct Connect link available. A transit gateway was created in each Region and the transit gateways were configured as inter-Region peers. Which design will provide on-premises connectivity into the Regions and allow inter-VPC communication across Regions?
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Correct answer: Create a transit VIF with a gateway association to a new Direct Connect gateway. Associate each transit gateway with the new Direct Connect gateway..
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The correct solution involves creating a transit VIF and associating it with a new Direct Connect gateway, then associating each regional transit gateway with this Direct Connect gateway. This design allows on-premises traffic to reach all regional transit gateways through a single Direct Connect connection, and enables inter-VPC communication across Regions via the peered transit gateways. Option 1 is incorrect because a private VIF with a virtual private gateway only provides connectivity to a single VPC and does not scale across multiple VPCs or Regions effectively, nor does it integrate with Transit Gateway for inter-VPC routing. Option 2 is incorrect because associating a Direct Connect gateway with virtual private gateways in each VPC is not the recommended or scalable approach for a large number of VPCs and does not leverage Transit Gateway for centralized routing. Option 4 is incorrect because using a Site-to-Site VPN over a public VIF adds unnecessary encryption overhead and complexity when a transit VIF can directly integrate with Direct Connect gateway and Transit Gateway for more efficient routing.
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