A company hosts a web application on an Amazon EC2 instance in a production VPC. Client connections to the application are failing. A SysOps administrator inspects the VPC flow logs and finds the following entry: 2 111122223333 eni- 192.0.2.15 203.0.113.56 40711 443 6 1 40 1418530010 1418530070 REJECT OK What is a possible cause of these failed connections? A) A security group is denying traffic on port 443. B) The EC2 instance is shut down. C) The network ACL is blocking HTTPS traffic. D) The VPC has no internet gateway attached.

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A company hosts a web application on an Amazon EC2 instance in a production VPC. Client connections to the application are failing. A SysOps administrator inspects the VPC flow logs and finds the following entry: 2 111122223333 eni-<###> 192.0.2.15 203.0.113.56 40711 443 6 1 40 1418530010 1418530070 REJECT OK What is a possible cause of these failed connections?
A) A security group is denying traffic on port 443.
B) The EC2 instance is shut down.
C) The network ACL is blocking HTTPS traffic.
D) The VPC has no internet gateway attached.

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A security group is denying traffic on port 443.

A Company Hosts a Web Application on an Amazon EC2