Which AWS services or features assist with disaster recovery for Amazon EC2 instances? (Select two.)
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Correct answer: EC2 Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots.
Why this is the answer
Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are critical for disaster recovery as they provide a pre-configured template to launch new EC2 instances quickly. If an instance fails, you can launch a new one from an AMI, ensuring rapid restoration of services. Amazon EBS snapshots are point-in-time backups of your EBS volumes. In a disaster, you can restore an EBS volume from a snapshot, attaching it to a new or existing EC2 instance to recover data. EC2 Reserved Instances are a billing discount, not a disaster recovery tool. AWS Shield and Amazon GuardDuty are security services, not directly involved in recovering EC2 instances or data after a disaster.
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