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Q: What is AWS IAM?
A: Identity and Access Management, a service used to securely control authentication and access permissions for AWS resources.
💡 Supports roles, groups, users, and policies.
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What is AWS IAM?
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Identity and Access Management, a service used to securely control authentication and access permissions for AWS resources.
💡 Supports roles, groups, users, and policies.
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Q: What is the difference between Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS?
A: S3 is object storage accessible via web APIs (scalable, durable); EBS is block-level storage volume mounted on an EC2 instance.
💡 S3 is serverless file repository; EBS is virtual hard drive.
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Q: Explain the role of an AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB).
A: Distributes incoming HTTP/HTTPS application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, or IP addresses in multiple Availability Zones.
💡 Operates at Layer 7 of the OSI model.
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Q: What is Amazon RDS?
A: Relational Database Service, a managed service for setting up, operating, and scaling SQL databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle.
💡 Provides automated backups and Multi-AZ replication.
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Q: What is a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)?
A: A logically isolated virtual network dedicated to your AWS account, giving you complete control over subnets, IP ranges, and gateways.
💡 Your private network inside AWS.
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Q: What is AWS Lambda?
A: A serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events (e.g. API requests) and automatically manages the underlying compute infrastructure.
💡 You pay only for the compute time you consume.
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