Cloud Architecture and Design Patterns Questions

Designing and evaluating cloud native architectures and common architecture patterns, with attention to service capabilities, limits, and operational and security implications. Topics include compute scaling models for virtual instances, managed compute, serverless functions and container orchestration; storage choice, object storage classes, lifecycle policies and caching strategies; managed relational database architectures with high availability patterns such as multiple availability zone deployments and read replicas; trade offs of serverless approaches including cold start and invocation limits; different load balancing approaches for application level and network level traffic; networking and identity boundary design including virtual networks, subnetting, routing, security groups and access control patterns; backup, recovery and disaster recovery planning; deployment patterns such as blue green and canary releases; scalability strategies, performance and latency considerations; vendor lock in, portability and total cost of ownership trade offs; and operational practices for monitoring, limits management and incident response. Candidates should be able to translate requirements into architecture decisions, justify trade offs, and design for resilience, scalability, performance, security and cost.