SAP-C02 Design for New Solutions Practice Question
A company is designing a microservices architecture using Amazon ECS with Fargate. The services need to communicate with each other. The company wants to minimize operational overhead and ensure that service discovery is automatically updated when services scale. Which service discovery option should be used?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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AWS Cloud Map
AWS Cloud Map provides service discovery that automatically updates with service scaling.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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AWS Cloud Map
Why this is correct
Cloud Map automatically manages service discovery.
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Amazon ECS service connect
Why it's wrong here
Service connect is a feature but Cloud Map is the underlying service.
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Elastic Load Balancing with internal NLB
Why it's wrong here
NLB does not automatically update targets for service discovery.
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Amazon Route 53 private hosted zones with health checks
Why it's wrong here
Requires manual updates.
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