Chapter 2: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Elastic Block Store

• 1. A, C. Many third-party companies maintain official and supported AMIs running their software on the AWS Marketplace. AMIs hosted among the community AMIs are not always official and supported versions. Since your company will need multiple such instances, you’ll be better off automating the process by bootstrapping rather than having to configure the software manually each time.
• 2. B, C. The VM Import/Export tool handles the secure and reliable transfer for a virtual machine between your AWS account and local data center. A successfully imported VM will appear among the private AMIs in the region you selected.
• 3. D. AMIs are specific to a single AWS region and cannot be deployed into any other region. Should your AWS CLI or its key pair not be configured properly, your connection would have failed completely. A public AMI being unavailable because it’s “updating” is theoretically possible...