Which AWS and Azure concepts should I know?
Understand the concept
Cloud platforms provide managed building blocks for compute, storage, databases, networking and operations. AWS and Azure use different service names, but the underlying choices—virtual machine versus managed runtime, object storage versus database, public versus private network—are transferable. Understanding responsibilities is more useful than memorizing a long service list.
Important ideas
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Compute: EC2 / Azure Virtual Machines. Object storage: S3 / Blob Storage.
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Managed relational databases: RDS / Azure SQL or Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
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Networking: VPC / VNet. Monitoring: CloudWatch / Azure Monitor.
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Know the purpose first; do not claim hands-on use of services you have not used.
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Managed services reduce some maintenance work but still require configuration, access controls, capacity planning and backups.
Can you explain it without the notes?
Which AWS and Azure concepts should I know?
Use your own words. Explain an example and one limitation before checking the explanation.
Check your explanation
Cloud platforms provide managed building blocks for compute, storage, databases, networking and operations. AWS and Azure use different service names, but the underlying choices—virtual machine versus managed runtime, object storage versus database, public versus private network—are transferable. Understanding responsibilities is more useful than memorizing a long service list.
Turn this concept into a clear answer.
- Explain a service's purpose and the tasks you actually performed; do not imply hands-on experience from recognizing its name.
Keep connecting the ideas.
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