A SysOps administrator is responsible for a large fleet of Amazon EC2 instances and must know whether any instances will be affected by upcoming hardware maintenance. Which option would provide this i

The correct answer is D. Review the AWS Personal Health Dashboard. If a hardware malfunction occurs, then Amazon EC2 tags the specific hardware as faulty. Any instances that are running on the hypervisor of the faulty hardware are moved to healthy hardware. During the transition to new hardware, the Amazon EBS-backed instances are stopped and in

Submitted by joshua94· Mar 30, 2026Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation

Question

A SysOps administrator is responsible for a large fleet of Amazon EC2 instances and must know whether any instances will be affected by upcoming hardware maintenance. Which option would provide this information with the LEAST administrative overhead?

Options

ADeploy a third-party monitoring solution to provide real-time EC2 instance monitoring
BList any instances with failed system status checks using the AWS Management Console
CMonitor AWS CloudTrail for Stopinstances API calls
DReview the AWS Personal Health Dashboard

How the community answered

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A
6% (1)
B
12% (2)
D
82% (14)

Explanation

If a hardware malfunction occurs, then Amazon EC2 tags the specific hardware as faulty. Any instances that are running on the hypervisor of the faulty hardware are moved to healthy hardware. During the transition to new hardware, the Amazon EBS-backed instances are stopped and instance store-backed instances are terminated. Amazon EC2 sends a notification through email and to your Personal Health Dashboard informing you of the hardware degradation and of the upcoming instance stop or termination. https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ec2-linux-degraded-hardware/

Topics

#Personal Health Dashboard#EC2 hardware maintenance#scheduled instance events#proactive notifications

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