A company is expanding its fleet of Amazon EC2 instances before an expected increase of traffic. When a SysOps administrator attempts to add more instances, an InstanceLimitExceeded error is…

The correct answer is D. Use Service Quotas to request an EC2 quota increase. You get the InstanceLimitExceeded error when you try to launch a new instance or restart a stopped instance. If you get an InstanceLimitExceeded error when you try to launch a new instance or restart a stopped instance, you have reached the limit on the number of instances that…

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Question

A company is expanding its fleet of Amazon EC2 instances before an expected increase of traffic. When a SysOps administrator attempts to add more instances, an InstanceLimitExceeded error is returned. What should the SysOps administrator do to resolve this error?

Options

AAdd an additional CIDR block to the VPC.
BLaunch the EC2 instances in a different Availability Zone.
CLaunch new EC2 instances in another VPC.
DUse Service Quotas to request an EC2 quota increase.

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Explanation

You get the InstanceLimitExceeded error when you try to launch a new instance or restart a stopped instance. If you get an InstanceLimitExceeded error when you try to launch a new instance or restart a stopped instance, you have reached the limit on the number of instances that you can launch in a Region. When you create your AWS account, we set default limits on the number of instances you can run on a per-Region basis. You can request an instance limit increase on a per-region basis. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/troubleshooting- launch.html#troubleshooting-launch-limit

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