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Basic AWS Knowledge: What is AWS? Explain its key components and services. What is the difference between EC2 and S3? What is an Availability Zone in AWS? AWS Services: Describe the use cases and benefits of services like EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, and CloudFormation. How would you architect a serverless application using AWS Lambda and API Gateway? Explain the differences between Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB. Security and Compliance: How do you secure data at rest and in transit on AWS? Explain the roles and responsibilities of AWS and the customer when it comes to security. How would you secure an EC2 instance?
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AWS Cloud Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Jun 17, 2023

Basic AWS Knowledge: What is AWS? Explain its key components and services. What is the difference between EC2 and S3? What is an Availability Zone in AWS? AWS Services: Describe the use cases and benefits of services like EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, and CloudFormation. How would you architect a serverless application using AWS Lambda and API Gateway? Explain the differences between Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB. Security and Compliance: How do you secure data at rest and in transit on AWS? Explain the roles and responsibilities of AWS and the customer when it comes to security. How would you secure an EC2 instance?

Where are your system images kept? ECR for the docker images. I explained that I work with ECS clusters and tasks on a regular basis, and leverage GitHub to update and store those configs. I even explained what the configs contain, and how that works with Jenkins deploys. Nope, not good enough for Mr. Flawless.
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Senior Cloud Engineer

Interviewed at Lincoln Financial Group

3.2★
Aug 2, 2020

Where are your system images kept? ECR for the docker images. I explained that I work with ECS clusters and tasks on a regular basis, and leverage GitHub to update and store those configs. I even explained what the configs contain, and how that works with Jenkins deploys. Nope, not good enough for Mr. Flawless.

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