AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 823

Amazon EC2 provides virtual computing environments known as _____.

Answer options

• A. instances
• B. volumes
• C. microsystems
• D. servers

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Amazon EC2 refers to its virtual computing environments specifically as instances, which are virtual machines running in the AWS cloud. Volumes represent block storage devices (such as Amazon EBS) rather than computing environments, while servers is a generic term and microsystems is an unrelated technology concept.