SAP-C02 Design for New Solutions Practice Question
A company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to AWS. They want to refactor the application into microservices and use container orchestration. Which AWS service should they use to manage the containers?
⚠ Common exam trap
A common mix-up: candidates confuse Amazon ECS with EKS, assuming both are equivalent for microservices, but EKS is specifically required when the organization needs Kubernetes-based orchestration for portability and ecosystem compatibility.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Amazon EKS
Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) is the correct choice because the company is migrating a legacy monolithic application to microservices and requires container orchestration. EKS provides a managed Kubernetes control plane, which is the industry-standard platform for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, making it ideal for refactoring into microservices.
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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AWS Lambda
Why it's wrong here
Lambda is for serverless functions, not containers.
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Amazon ECS
Why it's wrong here
ECS is a container orchestration service but not Kubernetes-based.
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Amazon EKS
Why this is correct
EKS is a managed Kubernetes service.
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AWS Fargate
Why it's wrong here
Fargate is a compute platform for containers, not orchestration.
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