As an AWS System Administrator in a large organization, you need an AWS service to automate the creation of AMIs through a standard process. Custom settings and scripts need to be configured in the images. And the images will be distributed in several AWS Regions for different AWS accounts. How would you implement this?

Answer options:

A.Generate image pipelines through AWS Packer.
B.Automate the image creations in AWS App Runner.
C.Configure image pipelines in AWS CloudFormation.
D.Create image pipelines through AWS EC2 Image Builder.

Correct Answer: D
Option A is incorrect because “AWS Packer” is not a valid AWS service. Packer is a tool to automate image creation. But an AWS service is required in the question.
Option B is incorrect because AWS App Runner is used to deploy a new version of the code or image repository. But it cannot build an image or share it with other AWS accounts.
Option C is incorrect because CloudFormation is not used to create EC2 AMIs. CloudFormation is an orchestration tool to manage AWS resources through templates.
Option D is CORRECT because, in EC2 Image Builder, you can manage and customize the creation of AMIs through image pipelines. After images are generated, you can also distribute them to other AWS Regions:
Reference:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/imagebuilder/latest/userguide/what-is-image-builder.html