AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 377

A user has launched an EC2 Windows instance from an instance store backed AMI. The user wants to convert the AMI to an EBS backed AMI. How can the user convert it?

Answer options

• A. Attach an EBS volume to the instance and unbundle all the AMI bundled data inside the EBS
• B. A Windows based instance store backed AMI cannot be converted to an EBS backed AMI
• C. It is not possible to convert an instance store backed AMI to an EBS backed AMI
• D. Attach an EBS volume and use the copy command to copy all the ephemeral content to the EBS Volume

Correct answer: B

Explanation

AWS does not support the conversion of Windows-based instance store-backed AMIs to EBS-backed AMIs, making Option B correct. While Linux-based instance store-backed AMIs can be converted to EBS-backed AMIs through a manual migration process, this process is unavailable for Windows instances. Therefore, options A and D are incorrect, and option C is incorrect because it falsely claims no instance store-backed AMI can be converted regardless of the OS.