AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 424

Which AWS service should a company use to decouple large monolithic applications into smaller microservices components?

Answer options

• A. AWS Direct Connect
• B. Amazon Lightsail
• C. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
• D. Amazon CloudWatch

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. AWS Direct Connect establishes a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS, Amazon Lightsail provides easy-to-use virtual private servers, and Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service.