A sysops administrator is managing a VPC network consisting of public and private subnets. Instances in the private subnets access the Internet through a NAT gateway. A recent AWS bill shows that the NAT gateway charges have doubled. The administrator wants to identify which instances are creating the most network traffic. How should this be accomplished?
A) Enable flow logs on the NAT gateway elastic network interface and use Amazon CloudWatch insights to filter data based on the source IP addresses.
B) Run an AWS Cost and Usage report and group the findings by instance ID.
C) Use the VPC traffic mirroring feature to send traffic to Amazon QuickSight.
D) Use Amazon CloudWatch metrics generated by the NAT gateway for each individual instance.

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Flow logs on the NAT gateway's elastic network interface can capture detailed information about the traffic, including source IP addresses, which can be analyzed to identify instances generating the most traffic.

A Sysops Administrator Is Managing a VPC Network Consisting of Public