A start-up firm has purchased 5 numbers of c5.xlarge Instance for a period of 3 years for an upcoming project. Due to the financial crisis, this project is on hold & the company is looking to share these instances to get some financial benefit. The IT head is seeking your guidance for sharing these Reserved Instances. Which of the following statements is correct with regards to Capacity sharing?

Answer options:

A.Capacity reservations can be shared only with Accounts within AWS Organisation.
B.Capacity reservations can be shared only with other AWS accounts.
C.Capacity reservations can be shared with other AWS accounts or within AWS Organisation.
D.Capacity reservations cannot be shared outside individual accounts.

Correct Answer – C
Using Capacity reservation sharing, reserved instances can be shared with other accounts within an AWS Organisation or other AWS accounts.
Option A & B are incorrect as Capacity Reservations can be shared with both other AWS accounts and Accounts within AWS Organisation.
Option D is incorrect as Capacity Reservations can be shared with other AWS accounts as well.
For more information on Amazon EC2 Capacity sharing, refer to the following URL-
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/capacity-reservation-sharing.html