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CLF-C02 · Question #674

Which actions are examples of a company's effort to rightsize its AWS resources to control cloud costs? (Choose two.)

The correct answer is B. Base the selection of Amazon EC2 instance types on past utilization patterns. C. Use Amazon S3 Lifecycle policies to move objects that users access infrequently to lower-cost. Base the selection of Amazon EC2 instance types on past utilization patterns Right-sizing means choosing instance sizes that match actual CPU, memory, and network usage. Analyzing historical utilization and selecting instance types accordingly prevents over- Use Amazon S3 Lifecyc

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Question

Which actions are examples of a company’s effort to rightsize its AWS resources to control cloud costs? (Choose two.)

Options

  • ASwitch from Amazon RDS to Amazon DynamoDB to accommodate NoSQL datasets.
  • BBase the selection of Amazon EC2 instance types on past utilization patterns.
  • CUse Amazon S3 Lifecycle policies to move objects that users access infrequently to lower-cost
  • DUse Multi-AZ deployments for Amazon RDS.
  • EReplace existing Amazon EC2 instances with AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

How the community answered

(36 responses)
  • A
    8% (3)
  • B
    75% (27)
  • D
    3% (1)
  • E
    14% (5)

Explanation

Base the selection of Amazon EC2 instance types on past utilization patterns Right-sizing means choosing instance sizes that match actual CPU, memory, and network usage. Analyzing historical utilization and selecting instance types accordingly prevents over- Use Amazon S3 Lifecycle policies to move objects that users access infrequently to lower-cost By automatically transitioning cold data to cheaper tiers (e.g., S3 Infrequent Access or Glacier), you reduce storage costs without manual intervention.

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