AWS Certified Developer Associate DVA-C02 Practice Question

The correct answer is AWS Elastic Beanstalk. It is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that simplifies the process of deploying and scaling applications. You simply upload your code, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, and auto-scaling to application health monitoring.

• AWS CloudFormation is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service. While it automates the provisioning of infrastructure, you must explicitly define and manage all the resources (like EC2 instances, load balancers, and scaling policies) in a template. It offers more control but does not automatically manage the application platform itself.
• AWS Lambda is a serverless, function-based compute service. It is ideal for running code in response to events, but it is not designed for deploying and managing entire web applications out-of-the-box in the same way as Elastic Beanstalk.
• Amazon EC2 provides virtual servers (instances) in the cloud. Using EC2 would require the team to manually provision the instances, configure the web server, set up load balancing, and implement an auto-scaling strategy, which is the opposite of the stated requirement to avoid infrastructure management.