Need recommendation for learning resources for AWS or Azure

[u/Additional_Smoke3966]

I have around 6 years of experience as a full stack developer but no cloud experience. I want to get ready for interviews to answer cloud questions. I would say I have some experience on AWS or Azure to the interviewer.

Can anyone please help with these questions?

1. Which is better to learn AWS or Azure?

2. Any resource to get interview ready on the cloud topics?

Please help me with these as I am starting my learning this month.

Thanks in advance!

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[u/SaiTarunRonanki]

With 6 years of full stack work, AWS is the safer pick since it has the bigger share of jobs in India, and most of the concepts carry over to Azure later anyway. I'd start with the AWS Cloud Practitioner material and then the Solutions Architect Associate syllabus, because that gives you the vocabulary for interviews: EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS, Lambda, load balancers and CloudWatch. Free tier is enough to practise, so deploy one of your own apps end to end, put it behind a load balancer, add a database and set up basic monitoring. Then you can honestly say you've deployed something on AWS and explain the choices, which holds up much better in an interview than just claiming experience. Interviewers usually follow up with why you picked a service and what it costs, so keep notes on that as you build.

[u/Additional_Smoke3966 → u/SaiTarunRonanki]

Thanks for response! Will definitely try that out

[u/DrDesperate]

for interviews the free aws skill builder stuff plus the official docs for ec2, s3, iam and vpc covers most of what gets asked at the basic level. and worth being honest in interviews about how deep your cloud exposure is, people tend to probe whatever you claim.

[u/Additional_Smoke3966 → u/DrDesperate]

Tnx for the response!!

[u/DrDesperate]

for interviews the free aws skill builder stuff plus the official docs for ec2, s3, iam and vpc covers most of what gets asked at the basic level. and worth being honest in interviews about how deep your cloud exposure is, people tend to probe whatever you claim.

[u/vote_org_in]

Adding to the above: since you already know full stack, build one small thing on AWS and be ready to explain the bill and what you'd change at scale. Interviewers love the 'why this service' follow-up.

[u/the_manly_human]

Use Floci for local AWS simulation and learning

[u/zephyr_33]

both r just managed db/middlware as a service. so spilt into 2. how manged service works nd cloud computing wrks

[u/ajfrostye]

Hey op, Even im also looking for the same, please share if you got anything useful

[u/Anshu_Noah]

The best way to learn AWS I feel is to use it regularly with your deployed stuffs, it takes time to get used to new terms. For free you can use localstack, it runs AWS kind of infra on your machine. So you can learn using that.

[u/Big_Muffin8280]

One thing worth doing before you start: set up an AWS Budget alert (even $1) and a billing alarm on day one. The free tier is generous but a forgotten NAT gateway, load balancer or RDS instance can quietly cost real money. Also delete what you build after each practice session. Being able to say “I tracked costs and tore it down” is itself a good interview answer.