A company that provisions job boards for a seasonal workforce is seeing an increase in traffic and usage. The backend services run on a pair of Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer with Amazon DynamoDB as the datastore. Application read and write traffic is slow during peak seasons. Which option provides a scalable application architecture to handle peak seasons with the LEAST development effort?

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Using Auto Scaling groups for the backend services allows the EC2 instances to scale automatically based on demand, and using DynamoDB auto scaling adjusts the read and write capacity as needed, providing a scalable solution with minimal development effort.

A Company That Provisions Job Boards for a Seasonal Workforce