Question 360
A cloud platform team must address a specific requirement, the decisive constraint is: A queue depth scales consumers only after processing lag exceeds a business SLA. What should the architect implement?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Tune predictive or target-tracking scaling metrics using message age and arrival patterns. Queue-age signals make capacity decisions sensitive to processing delay.
Incorrect Answers
For the separate situation A high-traffic service expects thousands of Lambda invocations but unexpectedly hits regional concurrency throttling, Model and request appropriate Lambda concurrency capacity while protecting downstream limits could be useful. Concurrency quotas can cap execution independently of workload demand.
Expand subnet CIDR capacity and plan ENI/IP requirements for task scaling solves the related scenario A production ECS service cannot launch enough tasks because the VPC subnets run out of IPs; container network interfaces consume address capacity during elastic scale-out.
Although Introduce RDS Proxy or bounded client pooling with safe concurrency limits can be valid when An RDS connection storm overwhelms the writer after many Lambda functions scale out, it targets a different technical condition. Database connection pools protect the backend from bursty client creation.