A company is running a containerized application on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). The application experiences highly variable traffic. The company wants to avoid managing the underlying EC2 instances and only pay for the compute resources the containers actually use. <br/><br/>Which compute option should they choose for their EKS cluster?

Answer options:

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

AWS Fargate

AWS Outposts

Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts

How to approach this question

Match 'avoid managing underlying EC2 instances' for containers to AWS Fargate.

Full Answer

B.AWS Fargate✓ Correct

AWS Fargate

AWS Fargate is a serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine that lets you focus on building applications without managing servers. It works with both Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.

Common mistakes

Thinking EKS only runs on EC2 instances.

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