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AWS Certified Solutions Architect study material · question 260 of 500

An AMI is created from a running EC2 instance. What does it capture?

  1. Snapshots of the root volume and any other attached EBS volumes
  2. The instance's memory contents only
  3. The root volume only, excluding data volumes
  4. The instance's security groups and IAM role only
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Answer: A. Snapshots of the root volume and any other attached EBS volumes

An AMI is built from snapshots of the root volume and any other EBS volumes attached, and it can be copied within or across Regions.

Source: Disaster recovery options in the cloud (Amazon Web Services) — Backup and restore — AWS services

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