You have datacenters in Miami, Los Angeles, and New York and an Azure subscription with virtual networks in East US and West US (peered). To connect the datacenters to the subscription while minimizing network latency, what should you create?
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Correct answer: three virtual hubs and one virtual WAN.
Why this is the answer
The correct answer is three virtual hubs and one virtual WAN. Azure Virtual WAN (vWAN) is a networking solution that optimizes and automates connectivity to and through Azure. It allows you to connect your on-premises datacenters to Azure and leverage Microsoft's global network backbone. A virtual WAN consists of a virtual hub, which acts as a central point for connectivity. Since you have three geographically dispersed datacenters and want to minimize latency, creating a virtual hub in an Azure region geographically close to each datacenter (e.g., East US for New York and Miami, West US for Los Angeles) and connecting them all to a single virtual WAN provides optimal routing and reduced latency. Incorrect options: Azure Application Gateways are Layer 7 load balancers and are not designed for site-to-site connectivity. On-premises data gateways are for connecting on-premises data sources to cloud services, not for general network connectivity. Three virtual WANs and one virtual hub is incorrect because a single virtual WAN can contain multiple virtual hubs. Three On-premises data gateways and one Azure Application Gateway is incorrect for the reasons mentioned above; these services do not provide the required site-to-site network connectivity and optimization.
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