Media firm is using EBS backed EC2 Instance for their application deployment. They have a process of daily snapshot of these EBS volumes. During an outage, while restoring this snapshot, they observed a delay in restoration, incurring financial loss to the firm. The IT Head has demanded to use Fast Snapshot restore (FSR) for performance improvement & assigned you to work on this task to set up FSR on Snapshots. Which of the following is the correct statement concerning FSR for EBS?

Answer options:

A.FSR can be enabled for New & Existing Snapshots per Availability Zone.
B.FSR can be enabled for only New Snapshots per Availability Zone.
C.FSR can be enabled for only Existing Snapshots per Availability Zone.
D.FSR can be enabled for only New Snapshots in all Availability Zone in a region.

Correct Answer – A
Fast Snapshot restore (FSR) needs to be enabled per Availability Zone. Also, this can be enabled on both existing as well as new Snapshots.
Option B & C are incorrect as FSR can be enabled for both new & existing Snapshots.
Option D is incorrect as FSR needs to be enabled per AZ.
For more information on Amazon EBS FSR, refer to the following URL-
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ebs-fast-snapshot-restore-fsr/