A SysOps Administrator Has Written an AWS Lambda Function to Launch

question 703

Multiple Choice

A SysOps Administrator has written an AWS Lambda function to launch new Amazon EC2 instances and deployed it in the us-east-1 region. The Administrator tested it by launching a new t2.nano instance in the us-east-1 region and it performed as expected. However, when the region name was updated in the Lambda function to launch an EC2 instance in the us-west-1 region, it failed. What is causing this error?

• A) The AMI ID must be updated for the us-west-1 region in the Lambda function as well
• B) The Lambda function can only launch EC2 instances in the same region where it is deployed
• C) The Lambda function does not have the necessary IAM permission to launch more than one EC2 instance
• D) The instance type defined in the Lambda function is not available in the us-west-1 region

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