An organization wants to implement 'Self-Healing' for their EC2 instances that are running in a private subnet. They want to ensure that if the 'StatusCheckFailed_System' metric triggers, the instance is automatically recovered with the same IP and metadata. Which service handles this?

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Correct Answer: Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery (CloudWatch Alarm action)

EC2 Auto Recovery can be triggered by a CloudWatch alarm on the system status check metric, facilitating hardware-level recovery....

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An organization wants to implement 'Self-Healing' for their EC2 instances that are running in a private subnet. They want to ensure that if the 'StatusCheckFailed_System' metric triggers, the instance is automatically recovered with the same IP and metadata. Which service handles this?

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Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery (CloudWatch Alarm action)

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EC2 Auto Recovery can be triggered by a CloudWatch alarm on the system status check metric, facilitating hardware-level recovery.

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