What are the GCP equivalents of common AWS services (EC2, S3, EKS, RDS, IAM, Lambda)?
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Quick Answer
EC2 → Compute Engine; S3 → Cloud Storage; EKS → GKE; RDS → Cloud SQL; IAM → Cloud IAM; Lambda → Cloud Functions; ECR → Artifact Registry; CloudWatch → Cloud Monitoring.
Detailed Answer
On GCP: VMs are Compute Engine, object storage is Cloud Storage, managed Kubernetes is GKE (the most mature managed K8s), the managed relational DB is Cloud SQL, identity is Cloud IAM, serverless is Cloud Functions (or Cloud Run for containers), and images live in Artifact Registry. Observability is Cloud Monitoring + Cloud Logging. GKE and BigQuery are common reasons teams pick GCP.
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Interview Tip
Mention GKE’s maturity and Cloud Run for serverless containers — GCP-specific strengths beyond the raw mapping.
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