A company is running a new promotion that will result in a massive spike in traffic for a single application. The SysOps Administrator must prepare the application and ensure that the customers have a great experience. The application is heavy on memory and is running behind an AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB). The ALB has been pre-warmed, and the application is in an Auto Scaling group. What built-in metric should be used to control the Auto Scaling group's scaling policy?
A) RejectedConnection Count
B) Request CountPerTarget
C) CPUUtilization
D) MemoryUtilization

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

CPUUtilization is a built-in metric that can be used to control the Auto Scaling group's scaling policy, as it is a common indicator of application load and performance.

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