SOA-C02 Exam Dumps : AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (SOA-C02)

Amazon EFS supports two forms of encryption for file systems, encryption of data in transit and encryption at rest. You can enable encryption of data at rest when creating an Amazon EFS file system. You can enable encryption of data in transit when you mount the file system.

# Enable instance scale-in protection for specific instance.

aws autoscaling set-instance-protection --instance-ids i-5f2e8a0d --auto-scaling-group-name my-asg --protected-from-scale-in

# Disable instance scale-in protection for the specified instance.

aws autoscaling set-instance-protection --instance-ids i-5f2e8a0d --auto-scaling-group-name my-asg --no-protected-from-scale-in

To ensure that EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group are not interrupted during message processing, the most effective method is to implement scale-in protection for the instances while they are actively processing messages. This can be done programmatically by modifying the Auto Scaling group's settings using the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling API.

Starting Message Processing: When an instance begins processing a message, your application should make an API call to enable scale-in protection. This is done using the SetInstanceProtection action, setting the ProtectedFromScaleIn parameter to true for that specific instance.

Completing Message Processing: Once the message has been processed, another API call should be made to disable scale-in protection. This is done by calling the SetInstanceProtection action again, but this time setting the ProtectedFromScaleIn parameter to false.

This method ensures that while messages are being processed, the instances are not terminated by the Auto Scaling group regardless of any scale-in activities that might be triggered by other parameters like CPU utilization or a decrease in the number of messages in the queue.

AWS Documentation Reference:

You can refer to the AWS documentation on managing instance scale-in protection in Auto Scaling groups for more details: Instance Scale-In Protection.

To support a wide variety of cloud storage workloads, Amazon EFS offers two performance modes, General Purpose mode and Max I/O mode. You choose a file system's performance mode when you create it, and it cannot be changed. If the PercentIOLimit percentage returned was at or near 100 percent for a significant amount of time during the test, your application should use the Max I/O performance mode.