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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Resources for this stage

Start with

CourseFree
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
Amazon Web Services · Beginner
Free official course: cloud concepts, core services, security and pricing, in the order this stage uses

Keep handy

AWS Documentation
Keep the Billing and Cost Management guide open while you set up your account and budget
AWS Well-Architected Framework
Skim the six pillars now; you will use them to review your capstone

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