A company runs multi-site hybrid infrastructure across the US and UK, with resources in us-east-1 and eu-west-2. Each Region uses a transit gateway to connect 15 VPCs. The company configured a transit gateway peering connection between Regions. Data centers are connected by a private WAN and exchange IP routes via iBGP. Each data center has a Direct Connect connection that terminates on a Direct Connect gateway and associates a transit VIF to the local transit gateway. Traffic normally follows the geographically shortest path, and cross-Region transfers should use the private WAN to reduce AWS costs. The transit gateway associations on the Direct Connect gateway currently advertise only local Region VPC prefixes. Routes to the other Region are learned via BGP from the other data center in original, non-aggregated form. Recently cross-Region transfers failed because of WAN issues. Modify routing so such interruptions do not cause outages, while preserving the original traffic routing goals when the network is healthy. Which changes should the engineer make? (Choose two.)
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Correct answer: Advertise the aggregate IP prefix for the other Region plus the local VPC CIDR blocks through the local Direct Connect connection., Remove all VPC-specific prefixes from the subnets advertised through the local Direct Connect connection, and advertise both Regional aggregate prefixes on the Direct Connect connection on both sides of the network. Configure data center routers to make routing decisions using the received BGP communities..
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The first correct option, "Advertise the aggregate IP prefix for the other Region plus the local VPC CIDR blocks through the local Direct Connect connection," ensures that each Direct Connect gateway advertises its local VPC prefixes and the aggregate prefix for the other AWS Region. This provides a backup path for cross-Region traffic via the local Direct Connect connection if the private WAN fails,
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