A company uses multiple accounts for its applications. Account A manages the company's Amazon Route 53 domains and hosted zones. Account B uses a load balancer fronting the company's web servers. How can the company use Route 53 to point to the load balancer in the MOST cost-effective and efficient manner?
A) Create an Amazon EC2 proxy in Account A that forwards requests to Account B
B) Create a load balancer in Account A that points to the load balancer in Account B
C) Create a CNAME record in Account A pointing to an alias record for the load balancer in Account B
D) Create an alias record in Account A pointing to the DNS name for the load balancer in Account B

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An alias record in Route 53 can point directly to an AWS resource like a load balancer, which is more cost-effective and efficient than using a CNAME record or creating additional resources.

A Company Uses Multiple Accounts for Its Applications