Interview Q&A / AWS & Cloud
AWS & Cloud interview questions
EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM and VPC basics, with when to pick which service.
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- What is the difference between Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS?
ECS is AWS's own container orchestrator with a simpler, AWS-specific model. EKS runs managed Kubernetes, so you get the standard Kubernetes API and tooling, with more features and more complexity to learn.
BeginnerQuick answer1 min read - What is AWS Fargate and how is it different from running containers on EC2?
Fargate is a serverless way to run ECS or EKS containers where AWS manages the servers. With the EC2 launch type you own and patch the instances yourself, which gives more control and can be cheaper at steady high usage.
IntermediateQuick answer1 min read