Reply To: Design High-Performing Architectures Question

[obmon]

The reason EKS on Fargate is chosen over ECS on Fargate is mainly because the scenario explicitly mentions that the new platform is based on Kubernetes. If the organization already has Kubernetes workloads, tooling, and expertise, EKS allows them to reuse their existing ecosystem and avoid retraining or rewriting everything for ECS.

Your observation is correct: “Service Auto Scaling” is not a Kubernetes concept — that part of the answer is inaccurate. In Kubernetes you would use HPA/VPA, not ECS-style Service Auto Scaling. The exam answer is conceptually pointing to “autoscaling of services on EKS,” but the terminology is wrong.

EKS is picked because the bank uses Kubernetes; Fargate removes node management. The scaling wording is just an imprecise part of the test.

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