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Difficulty: MediumInfrastructure Migration with AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

A retail logistics company is migrating its legacy inventory management servers from an on-premises data center to AWS using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN). The on-premises environment is connected to AWS via an AWS Direct Connect connection terminated at an AWS Transit Gateway. The migration team has configured the replication settings in AWS MGN to use the private IP addresses of the replication servers in the staging area VPC to ensure traffic does not traverse the public internet. However, after installing the replication agent on the source servers, the replication status remains in a disconnected state and no data is being transferred.

Which of the following configuration actions is required to resolve this connectivity issue and allow data replication to begin?

  1. Configure the on-premises firewalls to allow outbound traffic to the replication staging area subnet CIDR block on TCP port 1500, and ensure the security group attached to the replication servers in the staging VPC allows inbound traffic from the on-premises subnet range on TCP port 1500.Answer
  2. B
    Create a new Transit Gateway route table to establish direct transitive routing between the staging VPC and the target production VPCs, and associate a Direct Connect Gateway directly to the staging VPC to route replication traffic.
  3. C
    Associate the Route 53 Private Hosted Zone created for the MGN interface VPC endpoints with the replication staging VPC, and configure the on-premises DNS servers to forward queries for the MGN API to Route 53 resolver endpoints.
  4. D
    Deploy redundant NAT Gateways across multiple Availability Zones in the replication staging VPC, and configure the route tables associated with the replication staging subnets to route all outbound replication traffic to the internet.

Answer

Configure the on-premises firewalls to allow outbound traffic to the replication staging area subnet CIDR block on TCP port 1500, and ensure the security group attached to the replication servers in the staging VPC allows inbound traffic from the on-premises subnet range on TCP port 1500.
The correct configuration is to configure the on-premises firewalls to allow outbound traffic to the replication staging area subnet CIDR block on TCP port 1500, and ensure the security group attached to the replication servers in the staging VPC allows inbound traffic from the on-premises subnet range on TCP port 1500. This is because AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) replicates data continuously from the source agents to the replication servers in the staging area over TCP port 1500. Over a private connection such as AWS Direct Connect, security groups and firewalls must be explicitly configured to permit this traffic.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the data replication mechanism and port requirements for AWS Application Migration Service (MGN).
AWS MGN requires TCP port 1500 for continuous data replication from the Replication Agent on the source servers to the replication servers in the staging area.
Data replication traffic runs over a dedicated, secure channel on port 1500, distinct from control plane API traffic (which runs over port 443).
2
Analyze the network path and security controls in place between the on-premises data center and the staging VPC.
The path goes through a Direct Connect connection and a Transit Gateway. Network routing is private, but firewalls and security groups block the necessary ports by default.
Private network paths must still permit port-level traffic in both the on-premises firewall and the AWS security groups.
3
Formulate the remediation step to open TCP port 1500.
Allow outbound TCP 1500 from the source servers on the on-premises firewall, and inbound TCP 1500 from the on-premises network range on the replication servers' security group in AWS.
This establishes bidirectional flow for the replication stream over the private Direct Connect link.

Key Concept

AWS MGN Staging Area Data Replication Port Requirements
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