A company hosts its website on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The company manages its DNS with Amazon Route 53, and wants to point its domain's zone apex to the website. Which type of record should be used to meet these requirements?
A) An AAAA record for the domain's zone apex
B) An A record for the domain's zone apex
C) A CNAME record for the domain's zone apex
D) An alias record for the domain's zone apex

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An alias record is used in Route 53 to point a domain's zone apex to AWS resources like an Application Load Balancer. It allows you to map the domain directly to the AWS resource without needing an IP address.

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