XYZ Cloud Engineer interview experience

The questions were centered on cloud computing concepts and the kinds of AWS services you’d expect for building and running applications, including EC2, S3, and Lambda.

I had to think through architecture best practices, security concerns, and scalability scenarios, and the interviewer pushed for practical reasoning about how things would work in a real environment. It wasn’t just definition questions; it felt more like they were probing whether I could map requirements to the right AWS building blocks.

Difficulty was around average for me, but the real challenge was staying grounded in the