AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 433

Amazon EBS provides the ability to create backups of any Amazon EC2 volume into what is known as _____.

Answer options

• A. snapshots
• B. mirrors
• C. instance backups
• D. images

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Amazon EBS allows users to back up data on their volumes by taking point-in-time snapshots, which are incrementally stored in Amazon S3. While images (AMIs) can contain snapshots to launch new EC2 instances, snapshots themselves are the specific backup mechanism for individual EBS volumes. Terms like mirrors and instance backups are not the standard terminology used by AWS for this feature.