Your IT group maintains an application on AWS to provide development and testing platforms for your developers. Currently each environment consists of an m1.small EC2 instance. Your developers report to your group performance degradation as they increase network load in the test environment. How would you mitigate these performance issues in the test environment?

Your IT group maintains an application on AWS to provide development and testing platforms for your developers. Currently each environment consists of an m1.small EC2 instance. Your developers report to your group performance degradation as they increase network load in the test environment. How would you mitigate these performance issues in the test environment?

• Upgrade the m1.small to a larger instance type.
• Add an additional ENI to the test instance.
• Use the EBS optimized option to offload EBS traffic.
• Configure Amazon CloudWatch to provision more network bandwidth when network utilization exceeds 80 percent.

Explanation

Note that the EBS optimized option is not available for this EC2 instance.

An Amazon EBS-optimized instance uses an optimized configuration stack and provides additional, dedicated capacity for Amazon EBS I/O. This optimization provides the best performance for your EBS volumes by minimizing contention between Amazon EBS I/O and other traffic from your instance

Source

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/sql-server-ec2-best-practices/ebs-optimize.html