Create a copy of a custom Compute Engine VM to scale for increased application traffic. What should you do?

To scale a custom Compute Engine VM, the most efficient method is to create a custom image. First, you would create a snapshot of the base VM's disk. This snapshot captures the disk's state at a specific point in time. Then, you create a custom image from this snapshot. This image acts as a template, allowing you to quickly and consistently create new VM instances with the same configuration as your base VM. Creating instances directly from a snapshot is not a standard practice for scaling, as snapshots are primarily for backup and recovery. Creating images from an image is redundant.