| S.No. | Questions | AWS Service Name | Corresponding GCP Service Name |
| 1 | How do you create Virtual Machines? | Amazon EC2 | Compute Engine |
| 2 | How do you attach permanent storage (block storage) with Virtual Machines? | Amazon EBS (in EC2 svc) | Persistent Disk |
| 3 | How do distribute load among VMs? | Elastic Load Balancer | Cloud Load Balancing |
| 4 | How do you simplify setting up web application ? | AWS Elastic Beanstalk | App Engine |
| 5 | How do you orchestrate containers? | Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS | Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
| 6 | How do you build serverless applications? | AWS Lambda | Cloud Functions |
| 7 | How do you build private networks? | Amazon VPC | Cloud VPC |
| 8 | How do you connect on premise with cloud? | AWS VPN(shared), AWS Direct Connect (dedicated) | Cloud VPN(shared), Cloud Interconnect (dedicated) |
| 9 | What is the Object storage solution? | Amazon S3 | Cloud Storage |
| 10 | What is the File storage solution? | Amazon EFS | Filestore |
| 11 | How do you create relational OLTP databases ? | Amazon RDS (Amazon Aurora) | Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner |
| 12 | What is the relational data warehouse solutions ? | Amazon Redshit | BigQuery |
| 13 | What are the NoSQL database options? | Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon DocumentDB | Datastore/Firestore, Cloud Bigtable |
| 14 | How do you cache data from a database ? | Amazon ElastiCache | Memorystore |
| 15 | Scalable domain name system (DNS) web service | Route53 | Google Cloud DNS |
| 16 | What are the messaging services? | Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS | Cloud Pub/Sub |
| 17 | How do you manage authentication and authorization to Cloud? | Amazon IAM | Cloud IAM |
| 18 | How do you manage keys used for encrypting data? | AWS KMS | Cloud KMS |
| 19 | How do you automate deployment? | AWS CloudFormation | Cloud Deployment Manager |
| 20 | How do you monitor metrics around your applications | Amazon CloudWatch | Cloud Monitoring |
| 21 | How do you manage application and service logs? | Amazon CloudWatch Logs | Cloud Logging |
| 22 | How do you trace requests across applications and services? | AWS X-Ray | Cloud Trace |
| 23 | Create Virtual Machines | Amazon EC2 | Google Compute Engine (GCE) |
| 24 | Choose Operating System and Software | AMI (Amazon Machine Image) | Image |
| 25 | Choose the right family of hardware | Instance Family | Machine Family |
| 26 | Choose the right quantity of hardware (2 vCPUs, 4GB mem) | Instance Type | Machine Type |
| 27 | Restrict inbound and outbound traffic | Security Groups | Firewall Rules |
| 28 | Attach Permanent Hard Disks (Block Storage) | Amazon EBS | Persistent Disks |
| 29 | Permanent Internal IP Address that does not change during the lifetime of an instance | Private IP Address | Internal IP Address |
| 30 | Ephemeral External IP Address that changes when an instance is stopped | Public IP Addresss | External or Ephemeral IP Address |
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| 31 | Permanent External IP Address that can be attached to a VM | Elastic IP Address | Static IP Address |
| 32 | Templates to simplify creation of Virtual Machines | Launch Templates/ Configurations | Instance Templates |
| 33 | Simplify creation of multiple Virtual Machines | Auto Scaling Group | Instance Groups |
| 34 | Physical hosts dedicated to one customer | EC2 Dedicated Hosts | Sole tenant nodes |
| 35 | Simplify management (software, os patches ets) of 1000s of VMS | System Manager | VM Manager |
| 36 | Billing | Billed by second | Billed by second (after 1st minute) |
| 37 | Create cheaper, temporary instances for non critical workloads) | Spot Instances | Preemptible VMs ( (Fixed pricing, Max 24 hrs) |
| 38 | Reserve compute instances ahead of time | Reserved Instance | Commited use discounts |
| 39 | Get discounts for using resources for long periods of time | None | Sustained use discounts |
| 40 | Budget Management | Budget Alerts | Budget Alerts |
| 41 | How can a VM talk with a Cloud Service (Programmatic Identities)? | IAM role | IAM service account |
| 42 | How can you track usage of IAM Identities? | AWS CloudTrail | Audit Logging |
| 43 | What is a Policy? | Policy is a set of permissions | Policy is a list of bindings – Each binding binds roles with members |
| 44 | IAAS | Amazon EC2 | Google Compute Engine |
| 45 | PAAS | AWS Elastic Beanstalk | App Engine |
| 46 | CAAS – Kubernetes | Amazon EKS | Google Kubernetes Engine |
| 47 | CAAS – Custom | Amazon ECS | |
| 48 | CAAS – Serverless | AWS Fargate | Cloud Run |
| 49 | FAAS – Serverless | AWS Lambda | Cloud Functions |
| 50 | Regions | Regions | Regions |
| 51 | Availability Zone | Availability Zones | Zones |
| 52 | Additional Geographical Groups: | NA | Multi-region Locations: Two or more regions. Ex: United States, Europe, and Asia. |
| NA | Dual Regions: Specific pair of regions. Ex: nam4 (Iowa and South Carolina), eur4 (Netherlands and Finland), asia1 (Tokyo and Osaka). | ||