Which service should a development team use to run containerized applications without managing the underlying infrastructure?

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is the correct choice because it is a managed container orchestration service that allows you to deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications without needing to provision or manage the underlying virtual machines and infrastructure. This aligns perfectly with the requirement of running containerized applications without managing infrastructure. Azure Functions is a serverless compute service primarily for event-driven code execution, not for general containerized applications. Azure App Configuration is used for centralizing application settings and feature flags, not for running applications. Azure Container Registry is a private registry for building, storing, and managing container images, but it does not run the applications themselves.