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SOA-C02 · Question #420

A SysOps administrator creates a custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in the eu-west-2 Region and uses the AMI to launch Amazon EC2 instances. The SysOps administrator needs to use the same AMI to…

The correct answer is A. Copy the AMI to the additional Regions. Region - AMIs are a Regional resource. When you share an AMI, it is only available in that Region. To make an AMI available in a different Region, copy the AMI to the Region and then share it. For more information, see Copy an AMI…

Submitted by klara.se· Mar 30, 2026Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation

Question

A SysOps administrator creates a custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in the eu-west-2 Region and uses the AMI to launch Amazon EC2 instances. The SysOps administrator needs to use the same AMI to launch EC2 instances in two other Regions: us-east-1 and us-east-2. What must the SysOps administrator do to use the custom AMI in the additional Regions?

Options

  • ACopy the AMI to the additional Regions.
  • BMake the AMI public in the Community AMIs section of the AWS Management Console.
  • CShare the AMI to the additional Regions. Assign the required access permissions.
  • DCopy the AMI to a new Amazon S3 bucket. Assign access permissions to the AMI for the

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  • A
    73% (24)
  • B
    6% (2)
  • C
    6% (2)
  • D
    15% (5)

Explanation

Region - AMIs are a Regional resource. When you share an AMI, it is only available in that Region. To make an AMI available in a different Region, copy the AMI to the Region and then share it. For more information, see Copy an AMI. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/sharingamis-explicit.html

Topics

#AMI#cross-region copy#EC2 image management#region availability

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