Alibaba Cloud Certified Associate – Cloud Computing — Question 11

Auto Scaling is a management service that can automatically adjust elastic computing resources based on your business needs and policies. It supports adding existing ECS instances into the scaling group, whose status however must be _________.

Answer options

• A. Running
• B. Created
• C. Stopped
• D. Preparing

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is A, as only instances that are in the Running state can be added to the Auto Scaling group. Instances that are Created, Stopped, or Preparing do not meet the necessary conditions to be included in the scaling group.