AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C01 – Question103

Which type of AWS storage is ephemeral and is deleted when an Amazon EC2 instance is stopped or terminated?

A. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
B. Amazon EC2 instance store
C. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
D. Amazon S3

Correct Answer: B

Explanation:

Explanation:
When you stop or terminate an instance, every block of storage in the instance store is reset. Therefore, your data cannot be accessed through the instance store of another instance.
Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/InstanceStorage.html