Question

A company migrated several applications to Amazon EC2 by matching each instance to the CPU and memory of its old physical server. After three months, monitoring shows most instances consistently use less than 15% CPU and 20% memory. Which cost optimization action should the company take to reduce spending while still meeting demand?

Accepted Answer

Right-size the instances by selecting smaller instance types that match actual utilization

Answer

Purchase Reserved Instances for the current oversized instances to lock in a discount

Answer

Move all workloads to on-premises servers to avoid variable cloud costs

Answer

Enable Multi-AZ deployment for each instance to improve availability