AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 Practice Question

The correct answer is AWS Proton. AWS Proton is designed specifically for this use case, where a central platform team defines standardized, versioned templates for infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, and makes them available for developers to use in a self-service manner. This directly addresses the requirement of delegating complex development and deployment tasks to AWS by abstracting the infrastructure complexity away from application developers. The platform team creates 'Environment Templates' (for shared resources) and 'Service Templates' (for the application and its pipeline), and developers deploy instances of these services, providing only the necessary parameters.

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that simplifies deployment, but it does not provide the same level of centralized template management and governance across platform and developer teams that AWS Proton does. While it abstracts infrastructure, it lacks the formal concept of versioned, curated service templates managed by a separate platform team for developer self-service.
• Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate and AWS CodePipeline provides the necessary components but does not meet the requirement for a managed, self-service developer experience out of the box. The development teams would still be responsible for creating and managing their own task definitions, service definitions, and pipelines, which contradicts the goal of abstracting this complexity away from them.
• AWS App Runner is a fully managed service for deploying containerized applications from source code or a container image. It offers maximum simplicity but provides less control over the underlying infrastructure and CI/CD process. It is not designed for the platform engineering use case where a central team needs to define and enforce complex, standardized, and version-controlled templates for developers to consume.