A company has an application running on a fleet of Microsoft Windows instances. Patches to the operating system need to be applied each month. AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager is used to apply the patches on a schedule. When the fleet is being patched, customers complain about delayed service responses.
A) Change the number of instances patched at any one time to 100%.
B) Create a snapshot of each server in the fleet using a Systems Manager Automation document before starting the patch process.
C) Configure the maintenance window to patch 10% of the instance in the patch group at a time.
D) Create a patched Amazon Machine Image (AMI). Configure the maintenance window option to deploy the patched AMI on only 10% of the fleet at a time.

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Patching 10% of the instances at a time reduces the impact on service availability, minimizing delayed responses during the patching process.

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