A company wants to run containers without managing the underlying server infrastructure. Which AWS service should they use?
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Answer: B
AWS Fargate is the serverless launch engine for both ECS and EKS: it runs containers with no EC2 instances, clusters, or capacity planning to provision, patch, or scale on your side.
EC2-based container hosting leaves the whole server fleet in your hands, Elastic Beanstalk is oriented toward deploying web applications rather than container-first infrastructure, and Lightsail provides simplified small-scale hosting that is not a serverless container engine.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. EC2 is the raw virtual-server layer; running containers on it means provisioning and managing the instances yourself.
- C. Elastic Beanstalk automates environment setup for web applications, but it still provisions EC2 capacity behind the scenes rather than removing server management.
- D. Lightsail bundles simple virtual servers and apps for small workloads; it is not a serverless container runtime.