AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 330

A developer needs to debug and troubleshoot an application that is experiencing runtime errors. The application is running on microservices architecture on AWS.

Which AWS service should the developer use to troubleshoot the application?

Answer options

• A. Amazon Inspector
• B. AWS CloudShell
• C. AWS CodeStar
• D. AWS X-Ray

Correct answer: D

Explanation

AWS X-Ray is designed specifically for analyzing and debugging distributed microservices applications by providing request tracing and performance insights. Other services like Amazon Inspector focus on security vulnerability scanning, while AWS CodeStar is for project management and deployment, and AWS CloudShell is a command-line interface, making them unsuitable for runtime application tracing.