An organization wants to ensure that all their critical EC2 instances are spread across different physical hardware racks within an Availability Zone to minimize the impact of a single rack failure. Which placement strategy should they use?

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Correct Answer: Spread Placement Group

Spread placement groups place each instance on distinct hardware to reduce correlated failures....

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An organization wants to ensure that all their critical EC2 instances are spread across different physical hardware racks within an Availability Zone to minimize the impact of a single rack failure. Which placement strategy should they use?

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Correct Answer

Spread Placement Group

Why This Answer Is Correct

Spread placement groups place each instance on distinct hardware to reduce correlated failures.

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