A company needs its Amazon EC2 instances to be placed in separate physical locations within the same geographic region, with independent power sources and isolated network connectivity for each location. Which configuration satisfies these requirements?

Launching EC2 instances in multiple Availability Zones (AZs) within the same AWS Region satisfies the requirements. AZs are distinct, isolated physical locations within an AWS Region, each with independent power, networking, and cooling. This design ensures that if one AZ experiences an outage, the instances in other AZs remain unaffected, providing high availability and fault tolerance. Launching instances in multiple edge locations is incorrect because edge locations are primarily used for content delivery (e.g., CloudFront) and DNS (e.g., Route 53), not for hosting EC2 instances. Amazon Connect locations refer to the service for contact centers, not physical infrastructure for EC2. AWS Artifact is a service for compliance reports and agreements, not a physical location for deploying resources.