A company runs a web application on a fleet of Amazon EC2 instances that are...

AWS incident response best practices emphasizerapid containment with minimal blast radius. According to the AWS Certified Security – Specialty Official Study Guide, isolating a compromised resource while allowing the application to continue running is the preferred initial response.

By using Amazon EventBridge to detect GuardDuty findings related to anomalous traffic and invoking a Lambda function, the security engineer can automatically remove the affected EC2 instance from the Auto Scaling group and attach arestricted security group. This immediately isolates the instance while allowing Auto Scaling to launch a replacement instance, ensuring application availability.

Option A is invalid because EC2 instance profiles do not use long-term access keys. Option C affects the entire subnet and could disrupt unrelated workloads. Option D provides notification only and does not meet the requirement for automated response.

AWS documentation explicitly recommendsinstance-level isolation using security groupsas a best practice for initial incident containment.

AWS Certified Security – Specialty Official Study Guide

Amazon GuardDuty User Guide

AWS Incident Response Best Practices