The Development Team has successfully deployed a new application on the Amazon EC2 instance in the us-west-2 region. The same application needs to be deployed on Amazon EC2 instances in other regions. For this deployment, they are looking for your support to deploy EC2 instances with images built from instances in the us-west-2 region along with the latest security patches. Which action will be best suited for this requirement?

Answer options:

A.Create a snapshot of an image & deploy it in all other EC2 instances.
B.Build automated scripts to create updated images with the latest patches.
C.Manually create EC2 image with the latest patches.
D.Use EC2 Image Builder to create images with the latest patches.

Correct Answer – D
EC2 Image Builder can help provide images with the latest security patches & also automates testing these images to validate deployment.
Option A is incorrect as multiple snapshots will be required which will be time-consuming.
Option B is incorrect as creating automated scripts will incur additional admin work.
Option C is incorrect as manually creating EC2 image with the latest patches will be time-consuming & error-prone.
For more information on Amazon EC2 Image Builder, refer to the following URL-
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/automate-os-image-build-pipelines-with-ec2-image-builder/