You have a set of EC2 Instances that support an application. They are currently hosted in the US Region. The EBS volume type of the EC2 instances is General Purpose SSD. In the event of a disaster, you need a way to ensure that you can quickly provision the resources in another region. How could this be accomplished? (SELECT TWO)

Answer options:

A.Copy the underlying EBS Volumes to the destination region.
B.Create EBS Snapshots and then copy them to the destination region.
C.Create AMIs for the underlying instances and copy them to the destination region.
D.Copy the metadata for the EC2 Instances to S3.

Correct Answers – B and C
Snapshots can be used to create an AMI or template of the underlying instance. You can then copy the AMI to another region. You can also take snapshots of the volumes and then copy them to the destination region.
For more information on AMIs and EBS Snapshots, please visit the following URLs:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSSnapshots.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AMIs.html