AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 426

Which AWS feature or resource is a deployable Amazon EC2 instance template that is prepackaged with software and security requirements?

Answer options

• A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume
• B. AWS CloudFormation template
• C. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshot
• D. Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

Correct answer: D

Explanation

An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) provides the information required to launch an Amazon EC2 instance, acting as a prepackaged template with an operating system and necessary software. Amazon EBS volumes and snapshots are block storage components, not instance launch templates, while AWS CloudFormation templates are JSON or YAML files used to model and set up entire AWS infrastructure stacks.