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You are designing a data leak prevention solution for your VPC environment. You want your VPC Instances to be able to access software depots and distributions on the Internet for product updates. The depots and distributions are accessible via third party CDNs by their URLs.
You want to explicitly deny any other outbound connections from your VPC instances to hosts on the internet.
Which of the following options would you consider?

  • A. Configure a web proxy server in your VPC and enforce URL-based rules for outbound access Remove default routes.
  • B. Implement security groups and configure outbound rules to only permit traffic to software depots.
  • C. Move all your instances into private VPC subnets remove default routes from all routing tables and add specific routes to the software depots and distributions only.
  • D. Implement network access control lists to all specific destinations, with an Implicit deny all rule.
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amog
Highly Voted 3 years, 7 months ago
Answer is A Security group and NACL cannot have URLs in the rules nor does the route
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amministrazione
Most Recent 8 months, 3 weeks ago
A. Configure a web proxy server in your VPC and enforce URL-based rules for outbound access Remove default routes.
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SkyZeroZx
1 year, 10 months ago
Selected Answer: A
A. SG/NACL/RT cannot help with URL whitelisting.
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TigerInTheCloud
2 years, 4 months ago
Selected Answer: A
A is a good solution. Now using managed prefix list, updated regularly through Lamda (usually CDN provides API for getting the IP list), could be a better, more reliable, and cost-efficient solution
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01037
3 years, 6 months ago
A CDN, so IP is fixed
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cldy
3 years, 6 months ago
A. SG/NACL/RT cannot help with URL whitelisting.
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aimar047
3 years, 6 months ago
Answer A seems correct but removing default routes not possible
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miracle
3 years, 7 months ago
Answer is A. SG is for allow only. NACL is for deny and allow but cannot only via IP or Port. Cannot deny url.
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