A new website will run on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. Amazon Route 53 will be used to manage DNS records. What type of record should be set in Route 53 to point the website's apex domain name (for example, "company.com") to the Application Load Balancer?
A) CNAME
B) SOA
C) TXT
D) ALIAS

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An ALIAS record should be used in Route 53 to point the apex domain name to an Application Load Balancer because it can map the domain directly to AWS resources, unlike CNAME which cannot be used at the apex level.

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