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SOA-C02 · Question #376

A company has an application that runs only on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group with scheduled scaling actions. However, the capacity does not always…

The correct answer is A. Specify the capacity-optimized allocation strategy for Spot Instances. Add more instance types to. In August 2019 AWS launched the capacity-optimized allocation strategy for Spot Instances, which helps customers tap into the deepest Spot Instance pools by analyzing capacity metrics. Since then, customers have seen a significantly lower interruption rate with…

Submitted by packet_pusher· Mar 30, 2026Cost and Performance Optimization

Question

A company has an application that runs only on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group with scheduled scaling actions. However, the capacity does not always increase at the scheduled times, and instances terminate many times a day. A SysOps administrator must ensure that the instances launch on time and have fewer interruptions. Which action will meet these requirements?

Options

  • ASpecify the capacity-optimized allocation strategy for Spot Instances. Add more instance types to
  • BSpecify the capacity-optimized allocation strategy for Spot Instances. Increase the size of the
  • CSpecify the lowest-price allocation strategy for Spot Instances. Add more instance types to the
  • DSpecify the lowest-price allocation strategy for Spot Instances. Increase the size of the instances

How the community answered

(38 responses)
  • A
    84% (32)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    5% (2)
  • D
    8% (3)

Explanation

In August 2019 AWS launched the capacity-optimized allocation strategy for Spot Instances, which helps customers tap into the deepest Spot Instance pools by analyzing capacity metrics. Since then, customers have seen a significantly lower interruption rate with capacity-optimized https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-price-capacity-optimized-allocation- strategy- for-ec2-spot-instances/

Topics

#Spot Instance allocation strategy#capacity-optimized#interruption reduction#instance diversity

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