A User Has Enabled Instance Protection for His Auto Scaling

question 380

Multiple Choice

A user has enabled instance protection for his Auto Scaling group that has spot instances. If Auto Scaling wants to terminate an instance in this Auto Scaling group due to a CloudWatch trigger unre-lated to bid price, what will happen?

• A) Auto Scaling will notify the user for the next action
• B) Auto Scaling will remove the instance from the Auto Scaling Group
• C) Auto Scaling overwrites the instance termination attribute and terminates the instances
• D) The EC2 instance will not be terminated since instance protection from scale-in is enabled.

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