A Company Has an Application That Uses Amazon EC2 Instances

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A company has an application that uses Amazon EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The Quality Assurance (QA) department needs to launch a large number of short-lived environments to test the application. The application environments are currently launched by the Manager of the department using an AWS CloudFormation template. To launch the stack, the Manager uses a role with permission to use CloudFormation, EC2, and Auto Scaling APIs. The Manager wants to allow testers to launch their own environments, but does not want to grant broad permissions to each user. Which set up would achieve these goals?

• A) Upload the AWS CloudFormation template to Amazon S3. Give users in the QA department permission to assume the Manager's role and add a policy that restricts the permissions to the template and the resources it creates. Train users to launch the template from the CloudFormation console.
• B) Create an AWS Service Catalog product from the environment template. Add a launch constraint to the product with the existing role. Give users in the QA department permission to use AWS Service Catalog APIs only. Train users to launch the template from the AWS Service Catalog console.
• C) Upload the AWS CloudFormation template to Amazon S3. Give users in the QA department permission to use CloudFormation and S3 APIs, with conditions that restrict the permissions to the template and the resources it creates. Train users to launch the template from the CloudFormation console.
• D) Create an AWS Elastic Beanstalk application from the environment template. Give users in the QA department permission to use Elastic Beanstalk permissions only. Train users to launch Elastic Beanstalk CLI, passing the existing role to the environment as a service role.

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