AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 400

A company wants to migrate its Microsoft SQL Server database management system from on premises to the AWS Cloud.

Which AWS service should the company use to reduce management overhead for this environment?

Answer options

• A. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
• B. Amazon SageMaker
• C. Amazon RDS
• D. Amazon Athena

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Amazon RDS is a fully managed service that automates time-consuming database administration tasks such as provisioning, patching, backups, and scaling for Microsoft SQL Server. Amazon ECS is a container orchestration service, Amazon SageMaker is designed for machine learning, and Amazon Athena is a serverless query service for S3, making none of them suitable for reducing SQL Server database management overhead.