A company is developing an application hosted on Amazon EC2. The application requires 24/7 availability and a scalable, highly available architecture. Which two design guidelines should be applied?

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Utilize EC2 Spot Instances for cost savings, understanding potential interruptions due to market pricing.

6.3%

Implement Multi-AZ deployments to ensure high availability and automatic failover across different availability zones.

25.0%

Employ Auto Scaling groups to dynamically adjust EC2 instances in response to application demand, supporting scalability and high availability.

50.0%

Adopt AWS Backup for data protection and disaster recovery, recognizing its role in data safety rather than directly in high availability.

12.5%

Consider EC2 Reserved Instances for cost-effectiveness, noting their irrelevance to the architecture's high availability and scalability.

6.3%

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