SAP-C02 Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions Practice Question
A company is migrating a monolithic application to microservices on Amazon ECS. They want to implement a service mesh for observability and traffic management. Which THREE AWS services should they consider?
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Why each option matters
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AWS X-Ray
Options B, C, and D are correct. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides observability and traffic management. AWS X-Ray provides tracing for microservices. Amazon CloudWatch provides monitoring and logs. Option A is wrong because Amazon Route 53 is DNS, not a service mesh. Option E is wrong because AWS Step Functions is for orchestrating workflows, not service mesh.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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Amazon Route 53
Why it's wrong here
Route 53 is DNS, not service mesh.
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AWS X-Ray
Why this is correct
X-Ray provides distributed tracing.
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Amazon CloudWatch
Why this is correct
CloudWatch provides monitoring and logging.
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AWS App Mesh
Why this is correct
App Mesh provides service mesh capabilities.
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AWS Step Functions
Why it's wrong here
Step Functions is for workflow orchestration, not service mesh.
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