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SOA-C02 · Question #637

A company has a legacy non-production application that can scale only vertically. The application is deployed on a single t3.large (general purpose) Amazon EC2 instance. The EC2 instance is showing…

The correct answer is B. Change the instance to a nonburstable instance class. T3 instances are burstable and may run out of network burst credits during sustained high network utilization, causing performance degradation. Switching to a nonburstable instance class (for example, an M5 instance) provides consistent network performance without the risk of…

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

Question

A company has a legacy non-production application that can scale only vertically. The application is deployed on a single t3.large (general purpose) Amazon EC2 instance. The EC2 instance is showing 95% network utilization that causes significant performance latency after a few minutes. What should a SysOps administrator do to resolve this performance problem?

Options

  • AEnable unlimited mode on the current instance.
  • BChange the instance to a nonburstable instance class.
  • CUse a Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume.
  • DAdd more t3.large instances to the application.

How the community answered

(48 responses)
  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    79% (38)
  • C
    13% (6)
  • D
    6% (3)

Explanation

T3 instances are burstable and may run out of network burst credits during sustained high network utilization, causing performance degradation. Switching to a nonburstable instance class (for example, an M5 instance) provides consistent network performance without the risk of running out of burst credits, thereby resolving the performance issue.

Topics

#EC2 network performance#burstable instances#vertical scaling#instance type selection

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