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A company wants to adopt a standardized approach for provisioning their cloud infrastructure using templates. Additionally, they need to monitor CPU utilization and memory metrics of their deployed Amazon EC2 instances to ensure optimal performance.

Which two AWS services should the company use to satisfy these requirements? (Select TWO.)

  1. AWS CloudFormationAnswer
  2. Amazon CloudWatchAnswer
  3. C
    AWS CloudTrail
  4. D
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  5. E
    AWS Systems Manager

Answer

AWS CloudFormation and Amazon CloudWatch
The two correct services are AWS CloudFormation and Amazon CloudWatch. AWS CloudFormation is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service that uses templates to deploy and manage a wide range of AWS resources in a repeatable manner. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and management service that collects performance metrics (such as CPU utilization and memory) and logs from EC2 instances and other resources, enabling operational monitoring.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the service required for provisioning infrastructure using templates.
AWS CloudFormation allows users to define resources using JSON or YAML templates and automatically provisions them.
The company's goal is to standardize provisioning using templates, which matches Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
2
Identify the service required to monitor resource metrics such as CPU and memory utilization.
Amazon CloudWatch collects and tracks resource performance metrics.
The company needs a monitoring tool to track operational performance metrics.
3
Verify that the other choices do not meet the specified provisioning or monitoring criteria.
AWS CloudTrail is for auditing API activity, AWS Elastic Beanstalk is for web application hosting, and AWS Systems Manager is for fleet patching and operations.
This rules out the incorrect options to confirm the final selections.

Key Concept

AWS CloudFormation is used for template-based infrastructure provisioning, whereas Amazon CloudWatch is used for monitoring resource performance metrics.
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