You plan to host video encoding on Compute Engine, require high availability, and want to automate operations per Google best practices. What should you do?

The correct approach is to deploy to an instance group and enable autoscaling based on CPU utilization. Instance groups provide high availability by distributing instances across zones and automatically recreating failed instances. Autoscaling dynamically adjusts the number of instances based on demand (like CPU utilization), ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency, which aligns with Google's best practices for automated operations. Running on multiple standalone instances without an instance group lacks automated high availability and scaling. Manually adding or replacing instances is not an automated solution. While deploying to an instance group is a good start, manually increasing instances still misses the automation aspect of best practices.