A Company's Website Went Down for Several Hours

question 63

Multiple Choice

A company's website went down for several hours. The root cause was a full disk on one of the company's Amazon EC2 instances. Which steps should the SysOps Administrator take to prevent this from happening in this future?

• A) Configure Amazon CloudWatch Events to filter and forward AWS Health events for disk space utilization to an Amazon SNS topic to notify the Administrator.
• B) Create an AWS Lambda function to describe the volume status for each EC2 instance. Post a notification to an Amazon SNS topic when a volume status is impaired.
• C) Enable detailed monitoring for the EC2 instances. Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to notify the Administrator when disk space is running low.
• D) Use the Amazon CloudWatch agent on the EC2 instances to collect disk metrics. Create a CloudWatch alarm to notify the Administrator when disk space is running low.

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