You are revising options that would be best for monitoring a few EC2 instances you currently manage. Amazon CloudWatch has metrics available to monitor your EC2 instances for CPU load, I/O and network I/O. Your budget does not allow for spending on monitoring so using the default monitoring available is your preferred choice. With default monitoring, at what interval will these metrics be collected?
Correct answer - "5 minutes" : By default, Amazon EC2 sends metric data to CloudWatch in 5-minute periods.
"10 minutes"
"2 minutes"
"1 minute" - To send metric data for your instance to CloudWatch in 1-minute periods, you can enable detailed monitoring on the instance
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