AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam question N: 5

To serve Web traffic for a popular product, your chief financial officer and IT director have purchased 10 m1.large heavy utilization Reserved Instances (RIs), evenly spread across two availability zones; Route 53 is used to deliver the traffic to an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). After several months, the product grows even more popular and you need additional capacity. As a result, your company purchases two c3.2xlarge medium utilization RIs. You register the two c3.2xlarge instances with your ELB and quickly find that the m1.large instances are at 100% of capacity and the c3.2xlarge instances have significant capacity that's unused. Which option is the most cost effective and uses EC2 capacity most effectively?

A. Route traffic to EC2 m1.large and c3.2xlarge instances directly using Route 53 latency based              routing and health checks. Shut off ELB.

B. Configure ELB with two c3.2xlarge instances and use on-demand Autoscaling group for

    up to two additional c3.2xlarge instances. Shut off m1.large instances.

C. Use a separate ELB for each instance type and distribute load to ELBs with Route 53

    weighted round robin.

D. Configure Autoscaling group and Launch Configuration with ELB to add up to 10 more

on-demand m1.large instances when triggered by Cloudwatch. Shut off c3.2xlarge

instances.