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Your company has a set of EC2 Instances hosted in AWS. There is a requirement to create snapshots from the EBS volumes attached to these EC2 Instances in another geographical location. As per this requirement, where would you create the snapshots?
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In another Availability Zone
B
In another data center
C
In another Region
D
In another Edge location
Explanation:
Explanation
Correct Answer: C - In another Region
Why this is correct:
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Regions in AWS represent distinct geographic locations around the world (e.g., us-east-1 in North Virginia, eu-west-1 in Ireland, ap-southeast-1 in Singapore)
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Creating snapshots in another Region provides true geographic separation and disaster recovery capabilities
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EBS snapshots are automatically stored in Amazon S3 and can be copied across Regions
Why other options are incorrect:
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A. In another Availability Zone: Availability Zones are within the same Region, so they don't provide geographic separation
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B. In another data center: AWS doesn't expose individual data centers to customers; Regions are the appropriate level for geographic separation
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D. In another Edge location: Edge locations are used for AWS CloudFront (CDN) and don't support EBS snapshots
Key AWS Concepts:
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Regions: Geographically separate locations with multiple Availability Zones
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Availability Zones: Isolated locations within a Region for high availability
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Edge Locations: Points of presence for content delivery networks
This approach ensures business continuity and disaster recovery by having data copies in different geographic locations.
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