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Difficulty: HardHybrid and Multi-Account Network Connectivity Design

A biotechnology company is designing a hybrid, multi-account network topology in the `us-east-1` Region. The setup includes 1515 spoke VPCs and a centralized egress VPC, all connected via an AWS Transit Gateway (TGW). The company has the following requirements:
- Establish a primary 10 Gbps10\text{ Gbps} AWS Direct Connect connection to the corporate datacenter, with an IPsec VPN over the internet serving as a backup path.
- Provide highly available and resilient outbound internet access for resources in all spoke VPCs while minimizing NAT Gateway costs.
- Centralize private DNS resolution for a private hosted zone `corp.internal` in a Shared Services VPC so that it can be resolved by resources in all spoke VPCs and the on-premises datacenter.

Which TWO options should the Solutions Architect implement to meet these requirements?

  1. Associate the Transit Gateway with a Direct Connect Gateway, configure a Transit Virtual Interface (Transit VIF) on the Direct Connect connection, and establish a Site-to-Site VPN connection to the Transit Gateway.Answer
  2. Deploy one NAT Gateway in each of two Availability Zones in the egress VPC, and associate the `corp.internal` private hosted zone with all 1515 spoke VPCs using cross-account hosted zone associations.Answer
  3. C
    Associate all 1515 spoke VPCs directly with the Direct Connect Gateway using Private Virtual Interfaces (Private VIFs) to establish hybrid connectivity, bypassing the Transit Gateway to eliminate data transfer fees.
  4. D
    Deploy a single NAT Gateway in the egress VPC to minimize running costs, and route all outbound internet traffic from the spoke VPCs to this NAT Gateway via the Transit Gateway.
  5. E
    Create Route 53 Resolver Outbound Endpoints in each of the 1515 spoke VPCs, and configure them to forward queries for `corp.internal` to the default VPC resolver IP address (169.254.169.253169.254.169.253) located in the Shared Services VPC.

Answer

The correct architecture requires associating the AWS Transit Gateway with a Direct Connect Gateway using a Transit VIF, configuring an AWS Site-to-Site VPN as the backup path, deploying one NAT Gateway in each of two Availability Zones within the egress VPC, and associating the private hosted zone with all spoke VPCs using cross-account hosted zone associations.
The correct choices involve establishing hybrid connectivity using a Transit Gateway associated with a Direct Connect Gateway and a backup Site-to-Site VPN, alongside centralizing internet egress through redundant NAT Gateways and setting up cross-account hosted zone associations. Specifically, associating the Transit Gateway with a Direct Connect Gateway using a Transit VIF allows all spoke VPCs to share the Direct Connect connection. Deploying redundant NAT Gateways in different Availability Zones inside the egress VPC ensures high availability for outbound traffic, while cross-account hosted zone authorization allows the private hosted zone to be resolved by all VPCs.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Establish a scalable hybrid connection architecture for the 1515 spoke VPCs.
Configure AWS Transit Gateway (TGW) to connect all spoke VPCs and associate it with a Direct Connect Gateway (DXGW) using a Transit VIF for primary traffic, and a backup Site-to-Site VPN connection.
Direct Connect Gateway supports Transit Gateway associations, allowing up to 33 Transit Gateways and routing to hundreds of VPCs, overcoming the limit of 1010 VPCs per Direct Connect Gateway.
2
Ensure highly available outbound internet access.
Deploy one NAT Gateway in each of two Availability Zones within the centralized egress VPC.
Centralizing egress traffic minimizes the number of NAT Gateways needed compared to deploying them in every VPC, while using two Availability Zones ensures no single point of failure.
3
Configure private DNS resolution across accounts.
Use cross-account hosted zone authorization to associate the `corp.internal` Private Hosted Zone (PHZ) with all 1515 spoke VPCs.
This allows resources in the spoke VPCs to resolve records in the PHZ directly via the Route 53 Resolver without relying on complex cross-VPC DNS forwarding rules.

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Hybrid and Multi-Account Network Connectivity Design
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