Which AWS service is a managed container orchestration platform that is compatible with Kubernetes for running, scaling, and managing containerized applications?
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Answer: B
EKS is the managed hosted Kubernetes service: it runs certified Kubernetes control planes with AWS handling availability and scaling, letting the customer use standard Kubernetes tooling and portability. When Kubernetes compatibility is the requirement, only the service whose control plane IS Kubernetes qualifies.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. ECS is a capable orchestration service, but it is built on AWS's own proprietary model rather than Kubernetes APIs or tooling.
- C. Fargate is a compute engine that runs container tasks under either ECS or EKS; it performs no orchestration itself.
- D. App Runner deploys source code or a container as a managed web app with no Kubernetes compatibility or cluster control.