A DevOps engineer is called in to resolve a repeated performance issue.

If an AEM Author instance is consistently suffering performance degradation due to "resource allocation" (meaning it is starved for CPU or Memory under its current workload), failing over to the cold-standby instance will not solve the problem, because the standby has the exact same resource limitations. Compaction is a maintenance task for disk size, not a direct fix for resource starvation. The correct architectural response to constant resource starvation on a single-node system (like a primary author) is to vertically scale—upscale the Author instance by provisioning a larger Virtual Machine with more CPU cores and RAM.