A company uses Amazon Route 53 to manage the public DNS records for the domain example.com. The company deploys an Amazon CloudFront distribution to deliver static assets for a new corporate website. The company wants to create a subdomain that is named "static" and must route traffic for the subdomain to the CloudFront distribution. How should a SysOps administrator create a new record for the subdomain in Route 53?
A) Create a CNAME record. Enter static.cloudfront.net as the record name. Enter the CloudFront distribution's public IP address as the value.
B) Create a CNAME record. Enter static.example.com as the record name. Enter the CloudFront distribution's private IP address as the value.
C) Create an A record. Enter static.cloudfront.net as the record name. Enter the CloudFront distribution's ID as an alias target.
D) Create an A record. Enter static.example.com as the record name. Enter the CloudFront distribution's domain name as an alias target.

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To route traffic to a CloudFront distribution, you should create an A record with the subdomain (static.example.com) and use the CloudFront distribution's domain name as an alias target.

A Company Uses Amazon Route 53 to Manage the Public