A company's VMs that are created using the noncritical application tag are automatically shut down at 5:00 p.m. using a cronjob. Which of the following actions would allow a cloud engineer to stop…

Cloud audit logs are for monitoring and investigation, not for taking immediate action like stopping instances, and filtering through logs to identify and then stop instances would be time-consuming.

While the web console can be used, manually identifying and stopping multiple unresponsive instances one by one would be more effort than a single CLI command or script, especially if there are many instances.

Cloud provider CLIs allow for scripting and filtering resources by tags, which are already in use for identifying 'noncritical application' VMs. This method provides a programmatic way to target and stop multiple unresponsive instances simultaneously with minimal manual intervention, making it the least effort option.

A generic Bash script to shut down *all* instances might stop critical ones as well, which is not desired, as the specific context is about 'noncritical application' instances identified by a tag.