How would you answer an interview scenario involving Amazon EC2 in AWS?

For an interview scenario involving Amazon EC2, I would first clarify the business goal, scale, constraints, and the failure or quality attribute the interviewer wants to explore. Amazon EC2 provides resizable virtual machines in AWS. In this scenario, for a stateless web API on EC2, explain how you would design autoscaling, load balancing, patching, logging, health checks, and zero-downtime deployment. For production, use launch templates, Auto Scaling Groups, appropriate instance families, Systems Manager, CloudWatch, immutable deployments where practical, and separate durable state from compute. I would then explain the main alternatives and tradeoffs, identify likely failure modes, and describe how I would validate the solution through testing, observability, security controls, and recovery or rollback planning.