AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate SOA-C03 Practice Question
An operations engineer is deploying a CloudFormation template that launches an Auto Scaling group with 40 Linux instances across three Availability Zones. The VPC uses a single /24 CIDR block. Each private subnet currently has a /29 IPv4 CIDR. Stack creation fails with the message "Subnet does not have enough free IP addresses." Which action remediates the issue with the least operational effort and downtime?
Associate an IPv6 CIDR block with the VPC and configure the launch template to deploy IPv6-only instances in the current subnets.
Use the ModifySubnetAttribute API to convert each existing /29 subnet to a /26 CIDR and rerun the stack.
Add several additional /29 subnets in each Availability Zone and include all of them in the Auto Scaling group's subnet list.
Create a new /26 subnet in each Availability Zone from the unused portion of the VPC CIDR, update the Auto Scaling group to use these subnets, and then delete the /29 subnets.
A subnet's CIDR block cannot be resized after creation. The only practical fix is to create new, larger subnets, move or relaunch workloads into them, and then retire the undersized subnets. Creating one /26 subnet per Availability Zone provides 59 usable addresses per subnet-more than enough for 40 instances-without changing the VPC CIDR. Modifying an existing subnet's CIDR is not supported, enabling IPv6 does not add IPv4 capacity, and simply adding more /29 subnets would still leave each individual subnet with only three usable IPv4 addresses, requiring more complex distribution logic and additional route-table entries.
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