AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional SAP-C01 – Question297

If you have a running instance using an Amazon EBS boot partition, you can call the _______ API to release the compute resources but preserve the data on the boot partition.

A. Stop Instances
B. Terminate Instances
C. AMI Instance
D. Ping Instance

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation: If you have a running instance using an Amazon EBS boot partition, you can also call the Stop Instances API to release the compute resources but preserve the data on the boot partition.
Reference:
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#How_quickly_will_systems_be_running