The theme of Week 6 was "managed compute." The direction is AWS absorbing more and more of the burden of running servers yourself — following the spectrum from Lambda (fully serverless) to Fargate (serverless containers) to ECS/EKS (orchestration), we'll lay out where each service sits and its trade-offs. On the SAA-C03 exam, this topic shows up along two axes: "which service do you choose?" and "how do you wire them together?"
💡 The operational-burden spectrum: EC2 (fully self-managed) → ECS/EKS + EC2 (you manage nodes) → ECS/EKS + Fargate (orchestration only) → Lambda (functions only). The further right you go, the less operational burden and the thicker the AWS abstraction layer