A development team wants to trace requests as they travel through a distributed microservices architecture consisting of Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB. They need to identify performance bottlenecks. Which AWS service should they use?

Answer options:

Amazon CloudWatch Logs

AWS CloudTrail

AWS X-Ray

Amazon Inspector

How to approach this question

Identify the AWS service designed specifically for distributed tracing.

Full Answer

C.AWS X-Ray✓ Correct

AWS X-Ray

AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. It provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through the application.

Common mistakes

Choosing CloudWatch Logs, which requires manual correlation of request IDs.

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