AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 105

A developer wants to deploy an application on a container-based service. The service must automatically provision and manage the backend instances. The service must provision only the necessary resources.
Which AWS service will meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Amazon EC2
• B. Amazon Lightsail
• C. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
• D. AWS Fargate

Correct answer: D

Explanation

AWS Fargate is the correct choice because it allows for serverless container management, automatically provisioning only the necessary resources for running applications. In contrast, Amazon EC2 requires manual management of instances, Amazon Lightsail is geared towards simpler applications, and Amazon EKS focuses on Kubernetes orchestration without automatic resource provisioning.