Your company is planning on the following architecture for their application.
· A set of EC2 Instances hosting the web part of the application.
· A relational database for the backend
· A Load balancer for distribution of traffic
There is critical nature of the data stored on the underlying EBS volumes attached to the EC2 Instances. As a Solutions Architect of the Company, your supervisor has asked you to follow best backup practices to ensure data is available in another region for disaster recovery purposes. Which of the following would you consider complying with this requirement?

Answer options:

A.Create a copy of the volume in another region.
B.Create a snapshot of the volume in another region.
C.Create a snapshot. Copy the snapshot to the new region.
D.Create a copy of the volume. Copy the volume to the new region.

Answer – C
The AWS Documentation showcases the use cases of EBS snapshots.
Use Cases
Geographic expansion: Launch your applications in a new region.
Migration: Move an application to a new region, to enable better availability and to minimize cost.
Disaster recovery: Back up your data and logs across different geographical locations at regular intervals. In case of disaster, you can restore your applications using point-in-time backups stored in the secondary region. This minimizes data loss and recovery time.
Encryption: Encrypt a previously unencrypted snapshot, change the key with which the snapshot is encrypted, or, for encrypted snapshots that have been shared with you, create a copy that you own to restore a volume from it.
Data retention and auditing requirements: Copy your encrypted EBS snapshots from one AWS account to another to preserve data logs or other files for auditing or data retention. Using a different account helps prevent accidental snapshot deletions and protects you if your main AWS account is compromised.
Options A and D are incorrect since you need to create a snapshot.
Option B is incorrect since you cannot directly create a snapshot in another region.
For more information on EBS Snapshot copy, please refer to the below URL-
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-copy-snapshot.html