Which service is described as a fully managed platform that handles deployment and reduces the need to manage underlying infrastructure?

• A. Amazon Lightsail
• B. Amazon Elastic Container Service
• C. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• D. AWS Lambda

Answer: (C)

A fully managed platform that handles deployment and reduces the need to manage underlying infrastructure is what Elastic Beanstalk provides. You upload your application code and Beanstalk automatically provisions the necessary resources—compute instances (or containers), load balancer, auto-scaling, and monitoring—and performs deployments, scaling, and health checks. This lets you focus on writing code while AWS takes care of the operational aspects of running the app. Lightsail offers simpler VPS hosting and doesn’t automate the full deployment lifecycle at scale. Elastic Container Service focuses on container orchestration and still requires you to manage many deployment details. Lambda runs code in response to events in a serverless model, which is powerful but isn’t the same as hosting a full web application with managed deployment and infrastructure for long-running services. Elastic Beanstalk best fits the described scenario.