An Application Running on a Set of Amazon EC2 Instances

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An application running on a set of Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group requires a configuration file to operate. The instances are created and maintained with AWS CloudFormation. A DevOps engineer wants the instances to have the latest configuration file when launched, and wants changes to the configuration file to be reflected on all the instances with a minimal delay when the CloudFormation template is updated. Company policy requires that application configuration files be maintained along with AWS infrastructure configuration files in source control. Which solution will accomplish this?

• A) In the CloudFormation template, add an AWS Config rule. Place the configuration file content in the rule's InputParameters property, and set the Scope property to the EC2 Auto Scaling group. Add an AWS Systems Manager Resource Data Sync resource to the template to poll for updates to the configuration.
• B) In the CloudFormation template, add an EC2 launch template resource. Place the configuration file content in the launch template. Configure the cfn-init script to run when the instance is launched, and configure the cfn-hup script to poll for updates to the configuration.
• C) In the CloudFormation template, add an EC2 launch template resource. Place the configuration file content in the launch template. Add an AWS Systems Manager Resource Data Sync resource to the template to poll for updates to the configuration.
• D) In the CloudFormation template, add Cloud Formation init metadata. Place the configuration file content in the metadata. Configure the cfn-init script to run when the instance is launched, and configure the cfn-hup script to poll for updates to the configuration.

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