AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate SOA-C02 – Question20

A company hosts a website on multiple Amazon EC2 instances that run in an Auto Scaling group. Users are reporting slow responses during peak times between 6 PM and 11 PM every weekend. A SysOps administrator must implement a solution to improve performance during these peak times.
What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

A.
Create a scheduled Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events) rule to invoke an AWS Lambda function to increase the desired capacity before peak times.
B. Configure a scheduled scaling action with a recurrence option to change the desired capacity before and after peak times.
C. Create a target tracking scaling policy to add more instances when memory utilization is above 70%.
D. Configure the cooldown period for the Auto Scaling group to modify desired capacity before and after peak times.

Correct Answer: B