AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate SOA-C03 Practice Question
A CloudFormation stack that creates an Auto Scaling group distributed across three private subnets fails with the error "SubnetId X does not have available IP addresses." Each subnet has a /28 CIDR block and already contains several ENIs. As the CloudOps engineer, you must restore the deployment with minimal disruption to existing resources while following AWS best practices. Which action will most effectively resolve the stack failure?
Reduce the Auto Scaling group's desired capacity to zero, then retry the stack update and scale out later.
Allocate additional Elastic IP addresses and associate them with the Auto Scaling group launch template.
Create a new subnet with a larger CIDR block in the same Availability Zone and update the stack parameters so the Auto Scaling group references the new subnet.
Open an AWS Support case to raise the service quota for network interfaces in the VPC.
The error indicates that the selected subnet has exhausted its usable host addresses. A subnet's CIDR block cannot be resized after creation, so the only practical remediation is to create a new, larger subnet ​(for example, /24)​ in the same Availability Zone, then update the CloudFormation template or parameters so the Auto Scaling group uses that new subnet. This provides sufficient IP capacity without touching existing workloads. Reducing desired capacity does not guarantee future launches will succeed, Elastic IPs do not increase subnet capacity, and requesting an ENI service quota increase will not free addresses inside the subnet.
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