AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 528

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, which grants the customer full administrative access and responsibility for managing and patching the guest operating system. In contrast, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and Amazon RDS are managed or serverless services where AWS handles the underlying infrastructure and operating system patch management automatically.