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A company is migrating critical applications to AWS. The company has multiple accounts and VPCs that are connected by a transit gateway.

A network engineer must design a solution that performs deep packet inspection for any traffic that leaves a VPC network boundary. All inspected traffic and the actions that are taken on the traffic must be logged in a central log account.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST administrative overhead?

  • A. Create a central network VPC that includes an attachment to the transit gateway. Update the VPC and transit gateway route tables to support the new attachment. Deploy an AWS Gateway Load Balancer that is backed by third-party, next-generation firewall appliances to the central network VPC. Create a policy that contains the rules for deep packet inspection. Attach the policy to the firewall appliances. Create an Amazon S3 bucket in the central log account. Configure the firewall appliances to capture and save the network flow logs to the S3 bucket.
  • B. Create a central network VPC that includes an attachment to the transit gateway. Update the VPC and transit gateway route tables to support the new attachment. Deploy an AWS Application Load Balancer that is backed by third-party, next-generation firewall appliances to the central network VPC. Create a policy that contains the rules for deep packet inspection. Attach the policy to the firewall appliances. Create a syslog server in the central log account. Configure the firewall appliances to capture and save the network flow logs to the syslog server.
  • C. Deploy network ACLs and security groups to each VPAttach the security groups to active network interfaces. Associate the network ACLs with VPC subnets. Create rules for the network ACLs and security groups to allow only the required traffic flows between subnets and network interfaces. Create an Amazon S3 bucket in the central log account. Configure a VPC flow log that captures and saves all traffic flows to the S3 bucket.
  • D. Create a central log VPC and an attachment to the transit gateway. Update the VPC and transit gateway route tables to support the new attachment. Deploy an AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) that is backed by third-party, next-generation intrusion detection system (IDS) security appliances to the central VPC. Activate rules on the security appliances to monitor for intrusion signatures. For each network interface, create a VPC Traffic Mirroring session that sends the traffic to the central VPC's NLB.
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by ISSDoksim at July 31, 2023, 3 a.m.
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Certified101
Highly Voted 1 year, 11 months ago
Selected Answer: A
A is correct as sambb said. GWLB is perfect for traffic inspection
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trap
1 year, 9 months ago
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/introducing-aws-gateway-load-balancer-supported-architecture-patterns/
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Spaurito
Most Recent 7 months, 4 weeks ago
A - For high availability, we recommend that you use a Network Load Balancer or a Gateway Load Balancer endpoint as a mirror target. You might experience out-of-order delivery of mirrored packets when you use a Network Load Balancer or Gateway Load Balancer endpoint as your traffic mirror target. If your monitoring appliance can't handle out-of-order packets, we recommend using a network interface as your traffic mirror target.
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Blitz1
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Selected Answer: A
It's A just because of D is saying: "For each network interface, create a VPC Traffic Mirroring session that sends the traffic to the central VPC's NLB. " Mirroring each interface in "multiple accounts and VPCs" is definitly NOT the " LEAST administrative overhead".
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Blitz1
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Selected Answer: A
For sure A. It cannot be D because it is saying "All inspected traffic and the actions that are taken on the traffic must be logged in a central log account." Since we are talking about mirroring there is no ACTION that can be taken on the traffic since is not INLINE but a mirror.
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1 year, 2 months ago
My understanding in scenarios like this is that traffic should be inspected BEFORE the packets are allowed to leave VPC boundaries. If this understanding is true, traffic MIRRORING (option D) is the wrong approach as the decision to let the packet pass or drop would be done independently.
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Newbies
1 year, 3 months ago
A & B GLB/ALB with FW: These options require additional configuration and policy mgmt for the FW in the central VPC, complex and time-consuming to maintain across multiple VPCs. Answer is D - no changes req on TGW config
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Vogd
1 year, 5 months ago
Selected Answer: A
I do not see any word "mirroring" in the question. If you route traffic through GWLB you dont need mirroring at all. Also D offers to store Logs in different VPC than Central where Firewall is deployed. It does not make sense and incur additional complication.
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nuzz
1 year, 5 months ago
Selected Answer: A
A is the correct answer. do not get confused between mirroring and inspection
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Becklang
1 year, 8 months ago
Selected Answer: D
NFGW is also a router, it drops packets when there is no route entry on its routing table, IDS will accept the packets arriving at its interface no matter what the src/dst is.
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Cheam
1 year, 8 months ago
Selected Answer: D
Again, people still get it wrong as to what is a valid mirror target. GWLB Endpoint is a valid mirror target, but not the GWLB itself. Ref: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/mirroring/traffic-mirroring-targets.html Also, the question provides a good hint on which is the appropriate answer, "All inspected traffic... must be logged in a central log account". All the best.
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aws_god
1 year, 7 months ago
Nowhere in the question is a mirror target mentioned
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zendevloper
1 year, 7 months ago
It's A. D does not mention where the traffic is logged
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sambb
1 year, 11 months ago
Selected Answer: A
D asks for creating a mirroring session for each ENI, this is operationally inefficient. A provides a solution that monitors all IP traffic that reaches the transit gateway.
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Becklang
1 year, 8 months ago
No need for create mirroring session for each ENI , just create it on TGW ENI in each VPC
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ISSDoksim
1 year, 11 months ago
D - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/using-vpc-traffic-mirroring-to-monitor-and-secure-your-aws-infrastructure/
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johnconnor
1 year, 11 months ago
Agreed, deep traffic inspection and mirroring go like jelly and peanut butter
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