AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner / Question #1080 of 719

Question #1080

Which of the following AWS services are serverless? (Choose two.)

A

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

B

Amazon RDS

C

AWS Step Functions

D

Amazon DynamoDB

E

Amazon EMR

Explanation

AWS Step Functions (C) is a serverless workflow service that coordinates AWS services without managing servers. Amazon DynamoDB (D) is a serverless NoSQL database with automatic scaling and pay-per-request pricing.

Other options are not serverless:
- A (Elastic Beanstalk) deploys apps on managed EC2 instances, requiring environment configuration.
- B (RDS) uses provisioned database instances unless using Aurora Serverless (not specified).
- E (EMR) requires managing clusters for big data processing.

Key Points:
1. Serverless = no server management, auto-scaling, pay-as-you-go.
2. Step Functions and DynamoDB fit this model.
3. Services like RDS/EMR/Elastic Beanstalk involve infrastructure management.

Answer

The correct answer is: CD