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SOA-C03 · Question #137

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. Scale-out actions take a long time to become complete because of long-running boot scripts. A…

The correct answer is D. Add a warm pool to the Auto Scaling group. An Auto Scaling warm pool keeps a set of pre-initialized EC2 instances in a “stopped” or “running” state, ready to be quickly added to the active instance pool when scaling out. This significantly reduces scale-out latency caused by lengthy boot scripts, without permanently…

Submitted by kim_seoul· Mar 5, 2026Cost and performance optimization

Question

A company runs an application on Amazon EC2 instances that are in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group. Scale-out actions take a long time to become complete because of long-running boot scripts. A CloudOps engineer must implement a solution to reduce the required time for scale-out actions without overprovisioning the Auto Scaling group. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Options

  • AChange the launch configuration to use a larger instance size.
  • BIncrease the minimum number of instances in the Auto Scaling group.
  • CAdd a predictive scaling policy to the Auto Scaling group.
  • DAdd a warm pool to the Auto Scaling group.

How the community answered

(40 responses)
  • A
    10% (4)
  • B
    8% (3)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    80% (32)

Explanation

An Auto Scaling warm pool keeps a set of pre-initialized EC2 instances in a “stopped” or “running” state, ready to be quickly added to the active instance pool when scaling out. This significantly reduces scale-out latency caused by lengthy boot scripts, without permanently running extra instances (avoiding overprovisioning). Once demand increases, instances from the warm pool can be launched almost instantly.

Topics

#Auto Scaling warm pool#scale-out latency#boot scripts#instance pre-warming

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