SAP-C02 Practice Question: Accelerate Workload Migration and Modernization
A company is modernizing a monolithic application into microservices on Amazon ECS. They want to decouple services and improve resilience. Which AWS service should they use for asynchronous communication between microservices?
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Amazon SQS
Amazon SQS provides a fully managed message queue for asynchronous communication, decoupling services. Option B (Amazon Kinesis Data Streams) is for streaming data. Option C (Amazon API Gateway) is for synchronous REST APIs. Option D (Amazon SNS) is pub/sub, not point-to-point queue.
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Amazon SQS
Why this is correct
Amazon SQS provides a fully managed message queue for asynchronous communication, decoupling services.
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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Why it's wrong here
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is for streaming data, not point-to-point message queuing.
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Amazon API Gateway
Why it's wrong here
Amazon API Gateway is for synchronous REST APIs, not asynchronous decoupling.
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Amazon SNS
Why it's wrong here
Amazon SNS is a pub/sub messaging service, not a point-to-point queue.
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