“Optimizing Cloud Infrastructure Performance for Sudden Surges in E-commerce Traffic”

You are a Cloud Operations Engineer responsible for managing the cloud infrastructure of a large e-commerce company. Your company has experienced a sudden surge in traffic due to an unexpected increase in sales, and your CEO has expressed concerns about the ability of your cloud environment to handle this spike in demand. What steps would you take to optimize the performance of your cloud infrastructure, applications, and databases? What metrics and monitoring tools would you use to track the performance of your cloud environment in real-time, and how would you use this data to make informed decisions?Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.