A cloud engineer wants to deploy a new application to the cloud and is writing...

The script shown is written in Terraform, which is an infrastructure as code (IaC) tool used for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. This particular Terraform script specifies a required provider and its version, the Terraform version, sets the cloud provider's region, and then defines a resource for a server instance with a specific AMI ID and instance type. It also includes tags for the instance. The action this script will perform is to create a new cloud resource, specifically a server instance on the cloud provider's platform. References: CompTIA Cloud+ Study Guide (Exam CV0-004) by Todd Montgomery and Stephen Olson