Answer: Improved health and availability of applications, Optimized performance and costs

## Explanation Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling provides the following key benefits: ### ✅ Improved health and availability of applications - Auto Scaling automatically replaces unhealthy instances to maintain application availability - It ensures that the desired number of instances are running at all times - Helps maintain application performance during traffic spikes or instance failures ### ✅ Optimized performance and costs - Automatically scales the number of EC2 instances up or down based on demand - Reduces costs by scaling down during periods of low traffic - Maintains performance by scaling up during periods of high traffic - Uses scaling policies to match capacity to actual workload requirements ### ❌ Other options are not benefits of EC2 Auto Scaling: - **Reduced network latency**: This is more related to AWS services like CloudFront, Global Accelerator, or placement groups - **Automated snapshots of data**: This is handled by services like Amazon EBS snapshots or AWS Backup - **Cross-Region Replication**: This is typically handled by services like Amazon S3 Cross-Region Replication or Amazon RDS Read Replicas across regions EC2 Auto Scaling primarily focuses on maintaining application availability and optimizing costs through automatic scaling of compute capacity.

Author: Ritesh Yadav