AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate SOA-C02 — Topic 1 Question 92

Question

A company runs a stateless application that is hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance. Users are reporting performance issues. A SysOps administrator reviews the Amazon CloudWatch metrics for the application and notices that the instance's CPU utilization frequently reaches 90% during business hours. What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that will improve the application's responsiveness?

Accepted Answer

Correct answer: C. The correct answer is C. Option C: Create an Auto Scaling group, and assign it to an Application Load Balancer. Configure a target tracking scaling policy that is based on the average CPU utilization of the Auto Scaling group. Auto Scaling adjusts capacity automatically to match demand, improving availability and cost efficiency. An Application Load Balancer distributes HTTP/HTTPS traffic and supports path/host routing. A load balancer distributes traffic across targets in multiple AZs for availability and scale.

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate SOA-C02 — Question 92