A SysOps Administrator runs a web application that is using a microservices approach whereby different responsibilities of the application have been divided in a separate microservice running on a different Amazon EC2 instance. The administrator has been tasked with reconfiguring the infrastructure to support this approach. How can the administrator accomplish this with the LEAST administrative overhead?
A) Use Amazon CloudFront to log the URL and forward the request.
B) Use Amazon CloudFront to rewrite the header based on the microservice and forward the request.
C) Use an Application Load Balancer (ALB) and do path-based routing.
D) Use a Network Load Balancer (NLB) and do path-based routing.

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An Application Load Balancer (ALB) supports path-based routing, which is ideal for directing requests to different microservices based on the URL path, thus minimizing administrative overhead.

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