A company is using an Application Load Balancer (ALB) to present its application to the internet. The company finds abnormal traffic access patterns across the application. A solutions architect needs to improve visibility into the infrastructure to help the company understand these abnormalities better.
What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?
The most operationally efficient solution to improve visibility into the infrastructure and understand abnormal traffic patterns is to enable ALB access logging to Amazon S3. Subsequently, creating a table in Amazon Athena and querying the logs provides an automated, scalable, and efficient method for data analysis. This approach leverages Amazon Athena's interactive query capabilities for fast and cost-effective log analysis without manual intervention, making it the most optimal solution compared to manual file editing or using dedicated instances.
B is the correct answer
A - Cloudtrail is for API Calls and changes on AWS account. B - Going for athena in S3. - Correct C - Manual work D - Distractor
why not A?
Access logs is an optional feature of Elastic Load Balancing that is disabled by default
B - Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL.
Why there is a "Correct answer" (the green bordered one) at all while most of the time the community thinks (correctly) otherwise?
Correct answer is B
Answer B