Which AWS compute service gives users the ability to securely and reliably run containers at scale?

Question

Options

• AAmazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
• BAmazon Aurora
• CAmazon Athena
• DAmazon Polly

• A
  92% (35)
• B
  3% (1)
• D
  5% (2)

Explanation

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is purpose-built to help users deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications securely and reliably on AWS, making it the only service listed that directly addresses container orchestration. It integrates with other AWS services like IAM for security and supports both EC2 and Fargate launch types for flexible scaling.

The distractors are unrelated to containers: Amazon Aurora is a relational database service, Amazon Athena is a serverless query service for analyzing data in S3 using SQL, and Amazon Polly is a text-to-speech service that converts written text into lifelike speech.

Memory Tip: Break down the name - Elastic Container Service literally contains the word "container," making it easy to identify as the container management solution. If a question mentions containers at scale, ECS (or its sibling EKS for Kubernetes) should immediately come to mind.

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