AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 292

A company needs to process data from satellite communications without managing any infrastructure.

Which AWS service should the company use to meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Amazon CloudWatch
• B. Amazon Aurora
• C. Amazon Athena
• D. AWS Ground Station

Correct answer: D

Explanation

AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service designed specifically to let you control satellite communications and process satellite data without managing any physical infrastructure. The other options, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Athena, are intended for monitoring, relational database management, and data querying respectively, and do not support satellite communications.