Question 1
A retailer experiences a large sales spike for two hours and wants capacity to shrink afterward. Which option is the best fit?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Elasticity adds or removes resources as demand changes, avoiding permanently provisioning peak capacity. This fits the case: A retailer experiences a large sales spike for two hours and wants capacity to shrink afterward.
Incorrect Answers
High availability keeps workloads reachable during failures through redundancy and failover. That does not meet the requirement: A retailer experiences a large sales spike for two hours and wants capacity to shrink afterward.
Reserved capacity: Sets aside EC2 compute capacity for a selected configuration, rather than dynamically matching utilization. That does not meet the requirement: A retailer experiences a large sales spike for two hours and wants capacity to shrink afterward.
Vertical scaling changes the size of a single computing resource rather than the number of resources. That does not meet the requirement: A retailer experiences a large sales spike for two hours and wants capacity to shrink afterward.