A company finds that one of its Amazon EC2 instances suddenly has a high CPU usage. The company does not know whether the EC2 instance is compromised or whether the operating system is performing background cleanup. Which combination of steps should a security engineer take before investigating the issue? (Choose three.)

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A. Disable termination protection for the EC2 instance if termination protection has not been disabled.
B. Enable termination protection for the EC2 instance if termination protection has not been enabled. Most Voted
C. Take snapshots of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) data volumes that are attached to the EC2 instance. Most Voted
D. Remove all snapshots of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) data volumes that are attached to the EC2 instance.
E. Capture the EC2 instance metadata, and then tag the EC2 instance as under quarantine. Most Voted
F. Immediately remove any entries in the EC2 instance metadata that contain sensitive information.

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