Your website TriangleSunglasses.com is hosted on a fleet of EC2 instances managed by an Auto Scaling Group (ASG) and fronted by an Application Load Balancer (ALB). Your ASG scales based on demand. To reduce costs, you have set the minimum capacity to 2. How can you further reduce costs while maintaining availability?
✅ Correct Answer: Reserve two EC2 instances
🔘 Remove the ALB and use an Elastic IP instead
🔘 Reserve two EC2 instances ✅
🔘 Reduce the minimum capacity to 1
🔘 Reduce the minimum capacity to 0
Explanation:
By reserving two EC2 instances, you save costs because Reserved Instances offer a discount compared to On-Demand Instances while ensuring availability.
Which of the following will NOT help us while designing a STATELESS application tier?
✅ Correct Answer: Store session data on EBS volumes
🔘 Store session data in Amazon RDS
🔘 Store session data in Amazon ElastiCache
🔘 Store session data in the client HTTP cookies
🔘 Store session data on EBS volumes ✅
Explanation: