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A financial services company\'s primary customer-facing application, hosted on AWS, is experiencing sporadic and unpredictable periods of unresponsiveness, leading to customer complaints and potential revenue loss. The system architecture includes EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB), RDS for database operations, and Lambda functions for specific microservices. The SysOps Administrator has confirmed that individual EC2 instances are not consistently overloaded and that the RDS instance shows no persistent high utilization. What is the most effective initial strategy for the SysOps Administrator to identify the root cause of these intermittent connectivity disruptions?
Implement AWS X-Ray to trace requests across the ALB, EC2 instances, and Lambda functions, correlating trace data with CloudWatch Logs for detailed error analysis and CloudWatch Metrics for resource utilization anomalies.
Initiate a comprehensive packet capture on all EC2 instances and the ALB, followed by a deep packet inspection to identify any unusual network traffic patterns or dropped packets.
Engage the development team to perform extensive code reviews of all microservices and application components, focusing on potential concurrency issues and inefficient database query patterns.
Configure Amazon GuardDuty to monitor for any malicious activity or unusual API calls that might be impacting the application's availability and performance.

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