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DOP-C02 · Question #113
A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. Recently, an issue occurred that prevented EC2 instances from launching successfully, and it took several hours fo
The correct answer is B. Configure the Auto Scaling group to send a notification to an Amazon SNS topic whenever a failed. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/auto-scaling-notifications-recurrence-and-more-control/
Submitted by helene.fr· Mar 6, 2026Incident & Event Response
Question
A company is running an application on Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. Recently, an issue occurred that prevented EC2 instances from launching successfully, and it took several hours for the support team to discover the issue. The support team wants to be notified by email whenever an EC2 instance does not start successfully. Which action will accomplish this?
Options
- AAdd a health check to the Auto Scaling group to invoke an AWS Lambda function whenever an
- BConfigure the Auto Scaling group to send a notification to an Amazon SNS topic whenever a failed
- CCreate an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that invokes an AWS Lambda function when a failed
- DCreate a status check alarm on Amazon EC2 to send a notification to an Amazon SNS topic whenever
How the community answered
(33 responses)- A3% (1)
- B91% (30)
- C6% (2)
Explanation
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/auto-scaling-notifications-recurrence-and-more-control/
Topics
#Auto Scaling group#instance launch failures#SNS notifications#operational alerts
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