AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Question 355

A company is migrating its workloads to the AWS Cloud. The company must retain full control of patch management for the guest operating systems that host its applications.

Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Amazon DynamoDB
• B. Amazon EC2
• C. AWS Lambda
• D. Amazon RDS

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Amazon EC2 is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering that provides users with full root/administrator control over their virtual instances, making them responsible for guest operating system patching. Managed or serverless services like Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and Amazon RDS abstract the underlying infrastructure, meaning AWS automatically handles all OS-level maintenance and patching.