You are in charge of a large-scale highly available multi-tier web application infrastructure. This architecture consists of Amazon Route53 with a load balancer and multiple Amazon EC2 instances. You have been tasked to come up with a process to provide Blue/Green style deployments. Which technique should you use to deliver this new requirement?
A) Using Elastic Beanstalk re-deploy your application and configure Elastic Beanstalk Deployment types, and then use Amazon Route53's alias resource record set to swap between Elastic Beanstalk deployment types.
B) Re-deploy your application behind a load balancer using an AWS CloudFormation template, launch a new AWS CloudFormation stack during each deployment, update your Amazon Route53 alias resource record set to point to the new load balancer, and finally, terminate your old AWS CloudFormation stack.
C) Re-deploy your application behind a load balancer using Auto Scaling groups, create a new identical Auto Scaling group, and associate it to the load balancer. During deployment, create a new Amazon Route53 hosted zone, add this new load balancer to the zone in an alias resource record set, and then remove your old Auto Scaling group.
D) Re-deploy your application behind a load balancer using an OpsWorks stack, and use AWS OpsWorks stack versioning. During deployment, create a new version of your application, tell OpsWorks to launch the new version behind your load balancer, and when the new version launches, update your Amazon Route53 alias resource retort to point to the new load balancer.

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This approach uses AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure as code, allowing for easy creation and deletion of resources. By updating the Route53 alias to point to the new load balancer, you can effectively switch traffic to the new environment, achieving a Blue/Green deployment.

You Are in Charge of a Large-Scale Highly Available Multi-Tier