A Security Engineer Has Launched Multiple Amazon EC2 Instances from a Private

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Multiple Choice

A Security Engineer has launched multiple Amazon EC2 instances from a private AMI using an AWS CloudFormation template. The Engineer notices instances terminating right after they are launched. What could be causing these terminations?

• A) The IAM user launching those instances is missing ec2:RunInstances permissions
• B) The AMI used was encrypted and the IAM user does not have the required AWS KMS permissions
• C) The instance profile used with the EC2 instances is unable to query instance metadata
• D) AWS currently does not have sufficient capacity in the Region

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