You Have an Application Which Consists of EC2 Instances in an Auto

question 72

Multiple Choice

You have an application which consists of EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. Between a particular time frame every day, there is an increase in traffic to your website. Hence users are complaining of a poor response time on the application. You have configured your Auto Scaling group to deploy one new EC2 instance when CPU utilization is greater than 60% for 2 consecutive periods of 5 minutes. What is the least cost-effective way to resolve this problem?

• A) Decrease the consecutive number of collection periods
• B) Increase the minimum number of instances in the Auto Scaling group
• C) Decrease the collection period to ten minutes
• D) Decrease the threshold CPU utilization percentage at which to deploy a new instance

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