Core building blocks

5 lessons in the Cloud course.

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• Regions, Availability Zones, and LatencyPlace workloads near users, understand failure domains, and respect latency.
• Compute Basics (VMs / Instances)Understand virtual machines: size, images, lifecycle, and how providers name them.
• Storage Types (Object, Block, File)Pick object, block, or file storage for the right kind of data and access pattern.
• Networking in the Cloud (VPC Intro)Learn private networks, subnets, routes, and security groups at a conceptual level.
• Identity and Access (IAM Concepts)Control who can do what with users, roles, policies, and least privilege.