AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 692

A software engineer wants to launch a virtual machine (VM) and MySQL database on AWS.

Which AWS service will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational effort?

Answer options

• A. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
• B. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• C. Amazon Lightsail
• D. Amazon EC2

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Amazon Lightsail is the ideal choice because it provides easy-to-use virtual private servers and managed databases with pre-configured plans, requiring the least operational effort. While Amazon EC2 offers more control, it demands significant manual setup and administration, whereas AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon ECS are designed for deploying applications and containerized workloads, respectively, which introduces unnecessary complexity for this simple requirement.