AWS (Amazon Web Services) AZ500

🔶 AWS (Amazon Web Services)

• Launched: 2006
• Market leader (largest global usage)
• Very wide service portfolio
• Used by startups → enterprises

🔷 Microsoft Azure

• Launched: 2010
• Strong integration with Windows, Active Directory, Office 365
• Popular in enterprises & government sectors

☁️ ALL MAJOR AWS SERVICES (Grouped)

🖥️ 1. Compute

• EC2 – Virtual servers
• Lambda – Serverless functions
• ECS / EKS – Containers (Docker / Kubernetes)
• Elastic Beanstalk – PaaS
• Lightsail – Simple VPS

📦 2. Storage

• S3 – Object storage
• EBS – Block storage
• EFS – File storage
• Glacier – Archive storage
• Storage Gateway

🗄️ 3. Databases

• RDS – MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server
• Aurora – High-performance RDS
• DynamoDB – NoSQL
• ElastiCache – Redis / Memcached
• Redshift – Data warehouse
• Neptune – Graph DB
• DocumentDB

🌐 4. Networking & CDN

• VPC – Virtual network
• Route 53 – DNS
• CloudFront – CDN
• Elastic Load Balancer (ALB/NLB)
• Direct Connect
• VPN

🔐 5. Security & Identity

• IAM – User & role management
• Cognito – App authentication
• KMS – Key management
• Secrets Manager
• WAF & Shield – Web security
• GuardDuty – Threat detection
• Inspector – Vulnerability scan

📊 6. Monitoring & Management

• CloudWatch – Logs & metrics
• CloudTrail – Audit logs
• AWS Config
• Systems Manager

🚀 7. DevOps & CI/CD

• CodeCommit – Git repo
• CodeBuild
• CodeDeploy
• CodePipeline
• CloudFormation – IaC

🤖 8. AI / Machine Learning

• SageMaker
• Rekognition – Image/Face
• Lex – Chatbot
• Polly – Text to speech
• Comprehend – NLP
• Translate

📩 9. Messaging & Integration

• SQS – Queue
• SNS – Notifications
• EventBridge
• Step Functions

📱 10. Application & Frontend

• API Gateway
• AppSync – GraphQL
• Amplify – Frontend hosting

🎓 Popular AWS Certifications

• AWS Cloud Practitioner (Beginner)
• Solutions Architect – Associate
• Developer – Associate
• SysOps Administrator
• Solutions Architect – Professional
• DevOps Engineer – Professional
• Security / Advanced Networking / ML (Specialty)

🟦 Azure Key Services (Quick List)

• VM, App Service, Functions
• Blob Storage, Disk, File
• Azure SQL, Cosmos DB
• VNet, Load Balancer
• Azure AD
• Monitor, Defender
• DevOps Pipelines

✅ Which Should YOU Learn?

• Freelancing / Global clients → AWS
• Enterprise / Microsoft jobs → Azure
• Best option → AWS first, Azure later
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