You are creating several EBS Volumes for the EC2 Instances hosted in your company`s AWS account. The company has asked you to ensure that the EBS volumes are available if the entire region experiences an outage. How would you accomplish this? Choose 2 answers from the options given below.

Answer options:

A.Configure Amazon Storage Gateway with EBS volumes as the data source and store the backups on premise through the storage gateway.
B.Create snapshots of the EBS Volumes.
C.Ensure the snapshots are made available in another availability zone.
D.Ensure the snapshots are made available in another region.

Answer - B and D
The AWS Documentation mentions the following.
You can back up the data on your Amazon EBS volumes to Amazon S3 by taking point-in-time snapshots. Snapshots are incremental backups, which means that only the blocks on the device have changed after your most recent snapshot is saved. This minimizes the time required to create the snapshot and saves on storage costs by not duplicating data. When you delete a snapshot, only the data unique to that snapshot is removed. Each snapshot contains all of the information needed to restore your data (from the moment when the snapshot was taken) to a new EBS volume.
Option A is incorrect since you have to make use of EBS snapshots.
Option C is incorrect since the snapshots need to be made available in another region for such a huge disaster. It may be rare for the whole AWS region to go down. But it could cause massive permanent damage if we don’t plan for it.
For more information on EBS snapshots, please visit the below URL-
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSSnapshots.html