A company has an infernal web application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. The instances run in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group in a single Availability Zone. A SysOps administrator must make the application highly available. Which action should the SysOps administrator take to meet this requirement?
A) Increase the maximum number of instances in the Auto Scaling group to meet the capacity that is required at peak usage.
B) Increase the minimum number of instances in the Auto Scaling group to meet the capacity that is required at peak usage.
C) Update the Auto Scaling group to launch new instances in a second Availability Zone in the same AWS Region.
D) Update the Auto Scaling group to launch new instances in an Availability Zone in a second AWS Region.

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To achieve high availability, the application should be spread across multiple Availability Zones within the same AWS Region. This ensures that if one Availability Zone goes down, the application can still run in another.

A Company Has an Infernal Web Application That Runs on Amazon