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SOA-C02 · Question #168
A SysOps administrator is troubleshooting an AWS CloudFormation template whereby multiple Amazon EC2 instances are being created. The template is working in us-east-1, but it is failing in us-west-2…
The correct answer is D. Modify the AWS CloudFormation template by including the AMI IDs in the "Mappings" section. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/mappings-section-
Submitted by yaw92· Mar 30, 2026Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation
Question
A SysOps administrator is troubleshooting an AWS CloudFormation template whereby multiple Amazon EC2 instances are being created. The template is working in us-east-1, but it is failing in us-west-2 with the error code:
AMI [ami-12345678] does not exist How should the Administrator ensure that the AWS CloudFormation template is working in every region?
Options
- ACopy the source region's Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to the destination region and assign it
- BEdit the AWS CloudFormation template to specify the region code as part of the fully qualified
- CEdit the AWS CloudFormation template to offer a drop-down list of all AMIs to the user by using
- DModify the AWS CloudFormation template by including the AMI IDs in the "Mappings" section.
How the community answered
(43 responses)- A16% (7)
- B7% (3)
- C5% (2)
- D72% (31)
Explanation
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/mappings-section-
Topics
#CloudFormation Mappings#region-specific AMIs#multi-region deployment#AMI ID management
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