Which service removes the undifferentiated heavy lifting of configuring and managing the required infrastructure, similar to traditional batch computing software?

• A. Amazon EC2
• B. Alexa for Business
• C. AWS App Runner
• D. AWS Batch

Answer: (D)

AWS Batch is designed to take over the undifferentiated heavy lifting of batch workloads. It lets you submit jobs, define how they run (resource needs, container images, and dependencies), and then automatically provisions the right compute resources (EC2 or Fargate), manages scheduling and queuing, handles retries and dependencies, and scales resources up or down as needed. This means you don’t have to build or maintain a dedicated batch cluster or a custom scheduler—the service handles the infrastructure for you and focuses on running the workload efficiently. In contrast, using raw EC2 would mean manually provisioning and maintaining compute instances and a scheduler; App Runner targets containerized web apps, not batch processing; and Alexa for Business is unrelated to batch workloads. So the best fit is AWS Batch.