A company is migrating a microservices application to AWS using Docker containers. They want to run the containers without having to manage the underlying servers or clusters. Which compute service should they use?

Answer options:

Amazon EC2

Amazon ECS with EC2 launch type

AWS Fargate

AWS Lambda

How to approach this question

Look for 'containers' and 'no server management'.

Full Answer

C.AWS Fargate✓ Correct

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). It removes the need to provision and manage servers.

Common mistakes

Choosing ECS with EC2, which requires server management.

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