A user has enabled instance protection for his Auto Scaling group that has spot instances. If Auto Scaling wants to terminate an instance in this Auto Scaling group due to a CloudWatch trigger unre-lated to bid price, what will happen?
A) Auto Scaling will notify the user for the next action
B) Auto Scaling will remove the instance from the Auto Scaling Group
C) Auto Scaling overwrites the instance termination attribute and terminates the instances
D) The EC2 instance will not be terminated since instance protection from scale-in is enabled.

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Instance protection prevents Auto Scaling from terminating instances during scale-in events, even if triggered by CloudWatch alarms.

A User Has Enabled Instance Protection for His Auto Scaling