Cloud Service Selection and Tradeoffs Questions

Frameworks and criteria for evaluating cloud platform services and making pragmatic architecture decisions. Coverage includes managed versus self managed offerings, choice of compute such as serverless functions versus containers versus virtual machines, storage class and database type selection, networking and regional availability, security and compliance considerations, operational burden and run book requirements, vendor lock in and portability risks, performance and latency trade offs, and cost modeling and total cost of ownership. Candidates should be able to articulate trade offs, provide examples of making service choices for real world constraints, and explain how selection affects operability and future evolution.