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New accounts get limited usage of services like EC2 and S3 at no cost for a set period, so you can build real projects and practice without worrying about a surprise bill."})]}),(0,d.jsxs)("section",{id:"experienced","data-blog-section":!0,className:S("experienced"),children:[(0,d.jsx)("h2",{className:"text-2xl font-semibold my-5 text-blue-600 border-l-4 border-blue-500 pl-4",children:"AWS Interview Questions for Experienced Professionals"}),(0,d.jsx)("p",{className:"text-base leading-8 my-5",children:'Once you\'ve got a few years in, interviewers stop asking "what is X" and start asking "how would you."'}),(0,d.jsx)("h3",{className:"text-xl font-semibold my-5 text-gray-800",children:"1. 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How do you bring AWS costs down without hurting performance?"}),(0,d.jsx)("p",{className:"text-base leading-8 my-5",children:'Reserved Instances or Savings Plans for anything predictable, Spot Instances for batch jobs that can tolerate interruption, S3 lifecycle rules to push cold data into cheaper storage tiers, and right-sizing EC2 based on what CloudWatch actually shows you\'re using \u2014 not what you provisioned "just in case."'}),(0,d.jsx)("h3",{className:"text-xl font-semibold my-5 text-gray-800",children:"3. Security Group vs Network ACL \u2014 what's the real distinction?"}),(0,d.jsx)("p",{className:"text-base leading-8 my-5",children:"A Security Group is stateful and sits at the instance level, so return traffic is automatically let through. A Network ACL is stateless, works at the subnet level, and needs explicit rules in both directions \u2014 inbound and outbound."}),(0,d.jsx)("h3",{className:"text-xl font-semibold my-5 text-gray-800",children:"4. 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