A Company Has Received a Notification in Its AWS Personal

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A company has received a notification in its AWS Personal Health Dashboard that one of its Amazon EBS-backed Amazon EC2 instances is on hardware that is scheduled for maintenance. The instance runs a critical production workload that must be available during normal business hours. Which steps will ensure that the instance maintenance does not produce an outage?

• A) Configure an Amazon Lambda function to automatically start the instance if it is stopped.
• B) Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) of the instance and use the AMI to launch a new instance once the existing instance is retired.
• C) Enable termination protection on the EC2 instance.
• D) Stop and start the EC2 instance during a maintenance window outside of normal business hours.

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