Stage 2 · Lesson 7 of 8
The same service under three names
Every cloud offers , , managed databases, and identity, but each gives them its own names. EC2, Virtual Machines and Engine are all VMs; S3, Blob Storage and Cloud Storage are all object storage.
Keep a map of the equivalents for the services you use, because tutorials, job posts, and colleagues often speak another provider's language. The concepts carry across; the defaults, limits and pricing units do not. The cheat sheet has a two-part map to start from.
Common trapassuming equivalent means identical, for example that a network works the same way on every cloud, and being caught out by a different default.
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- CourseFreeMicrosoft Learn: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) training
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