AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty (ANS-C00) — Question 145

Your organization has placed a project on hold and has stopped 30 public EC2 instances. These instances use instance store volumes and do not have custom
AMIs associated. You are still being charged every month.
What is the charge probably for?

Answer options

• A. AWS charges for dormant accounts.
• B. You have Elastic IPs associated with those instances.
• C. There is a "stopped instance" fee that AWS charges every month.
• D. You are being charged for the EBS volumes.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B because having Elastic IPs associated with stopped instances incurs charges even when the instances are not running. Option A is incorrect as AWS does not charge for dormant accounts, and option C is wrong since there is no specific fee for stopped instances. Option D is also incorrect because EBS volumes are not applicable in this scenario as the instances use instance store volumes.