SAP-C02 Design for New Solutions Practice Question
A company is designing a new microservices architecture on AWS. Each service must be independently deployable and scale based on demand. The company wants to minimize operational overhead for container orchestration. Which AWS service should the company use?
⚠ Common exam trap
It's easy for candidates to choose Amazon EKS assuming Kubernetes is the only modern orchestration tool, but the question specifically asks for minimal operational overhead, and Fargate's serverless model removes the need to manage any cluster infrastructure, which EKS does not fully eliminate even with managed node groups.
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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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with AWS Fargate
Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate is the correct choice because it provides a fully managed container orchestration service that eliminates the need to provision, configure, or scale underlying EC2 instances. Fargate runs each container in its own isolated compute environment, allowing each microservice to scale independently based on demand while minimizing operational overhead for cluster management.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Why it's wrong here
EKS requires managing the Kubernetes control plane, increasing operational overhead.
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Amazon EC2 with Auto Scaling
Why it's wrong here
EC2 requires manual instance management and does not abstract container orchestration.
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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with AWS Fargate
Why this is correct
ECS with Fargate is serverless and reduces operational overhead for container orchestration.
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AWS Lambda
Why it's wrong here
Lambda is for serverless functions, not for running containers.
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