AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 79

A SysOps Administrator is creating additional Amazon EC2 instances and receives an InstanceLimitExceeded error.
What is the cause of the issue and how can it be resolved?

Answer options

• A. The Administrator has requested too many instances at once and must request fewer instances in batches.
• B. The concurrent running instance limit has been reached, and an EC2 limit increase request must be filed with AWS Support.
• C. AWS does not currently have enough available capacity and a different instance type must be used.
• D. The Administrator must specify the maximum number of instances to be created while provisioning EC2 instances.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B because the InstanceLimitExceeded error occurs when the maximum number of concurrent instances has been reached, which can only be resolved by requesting a limit increase from AWS Support. Option A is incorrect as it pertains to batch requests, which is not the underlying issue, and options C and D do not address the limit on the number of running instances.