A SysOps administrator needs to provision a new fleet of Amazon EC2 Spot Instances in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. The Auto Scaling group will use a wide range of instance types. The configured fleet must come from pools that have the most availability for the number of instances that are launched. Which solution will meet these requirements?
- ALaunch the Spot Instances up to the maximum capacity of the Auto Scaling group.
- BLaunch the Spot Instances by using the diversified strategy.
- CLaunch the Spot Instances by using the capacity optimized strategy. (correct answer)
- DUse the Spot Instance advisor to help determine the best Spot allocation strategy.
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The correct answer is C. Option C: Launch the Spot Instances by using the capacity optimized strategy.
Explanation
Spot Instances use spare capacity at a large discount, ideal for fault-tolerant or interruptible workloads.