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Cloud Services

AWS

EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)

List all instances
aws ec2 describe-instances
Start an instance
aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids <id>
Stop an instance
aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids <id>
Terminate an instance
aws ec2 terminate-instances --instance-ids <id>
Create a key pair
aws ec2 create-key-pair --key-name <name>
List security groups
aws ec2 describe-security-groups

S3 (Simple Storage Service)

List buckets
aws s3 ls
Create a bucket
aws s3 mb s3://<bucket>
Upload a file
aws s3 cp <file> s3://<bucket>/
Delete a file
aws s3 rm s3://<bucket>/<file>
Delete a bucket
aws s3 rb s3://<bucket> --force
Sync local and S3
aws s3 sync <local-dir> s3://<bucket>/

IAM (Identity and Access Management)

List IAM users
aws iam list-users
Create a user
aws iam create-user --user-name <name>
Attach a policy
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name <name> --policy-arn <policy>
List IAM roles
aws iam list-roles
Create a role
aws iam create-role --role-name <name> --assume-role-policy-document file://policy.json
List policies
aws iam list-policies

VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)

List VPCs
aws ec2 describe-vpcs
Create a VPC
aws ec2 create-vpc --cidr-block <CIDR>
Delete a VPC
aws ec2 delete-vpc --vpc-id <id>
Create a subnet
aws ec2 create-subnet --vpc-id <id> --cidr-block <CIDR>
List security groups
aws ec2 describe-security-groups
List internet gateways
aws ec2 describe-internet-gateways

Lambda (Serverless Computing)

List all Lambda functions
aws lambda list-functions
Create a function
aws lambda create-function --function-name <name> --runtime <runtime> --role <role> --handler <handler>
Update function code
aws lambda update-function-code --function-name <name> --zip-file fileb://<file>.zip
Delete a function
aws lambda delete-function --function-name <name>
Invoke a function
aws lambda invoke --function-name <name> output.json

Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)

List EKS clusters
aws eks list-clusters
Describe an EKS cluster
aws eks describe-cluster --name my-cluster
Create an EKS cluster
aws eks create-cluster --name my-cluster --role-arn arn:aws:iam::account-id:role/EKSRole --resources-vpc-config subnetIds=subnet-xxxxxxx,securityGroupIds=sg-xxxxxxx
Configure kubectl to use the EKS cluster
aws eks update-kubeconfig --name my-cluster
Check worker nodes
kubectl get nodes
List running pods
kubectl get pods -A

Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service)

List ECS clusters
aws ecs list-cluster
List ECS services
aws ecs list-services --cluster my-cluster
Describe an ECS service
aws ecs describe-services --cluster my-cluster --services my-service

AWS CloudFormation

List all stacks
aws cloudformation list-stacks
Create a stack
aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name my-stack --template-body file://template.yml

CI/CD (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy)

AWS CodePipeline

List all pipelines
aws codepipeline list-pipelines
Start a pipeline execution
aws codepipeline start-pipeline-execution --name my-pipeline

AWS CodeBuild

List all CodeBuild projects
aws codebuild list-projects
Start a build
aws codebuild start-build --project-name my-project

AWS CodeDeploy

List all CodeDeploy applications
aws deploy list-applications
Deploy an application
aws deploy create-deployment --application-name MyApp --deployment-group-name MyDeploymentGroup --s3-location bucket=my-bucket,key=app.zip,bundleType=zip

Security & Compliance

List CloudTrail logs
aws cloudtrail describe-trails
List CloudTrail logs
aws secretsmanager list-secrets
Retrieve a secret
aws secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id my-secret

Monitoring & Logging (CloudWatch)

List available metrics
aws cloudwatch list-metrics
Create a CloudWatch alarm
aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm --alarm-name cpu-high --metric-name CPUUtilization --namespace AWS/EC2 --statistic Average --period 300 --threshold 80 --comparison-operator GreaterThanThreshold --dimensions Name=InstanceId,Value=i-xxxxxxxxxx --evaluation-periods 2 --alarm-actions arn:aws:sns:region:account-id:my-topic
List all log groups
aws logs describe-log-groups
Retrieve log events
aws logs get-log-events --log-group-name my-log-group --log-stream-name my-log-stream

Networking (VPC, ELB, Route 53)

Amazon VPC

List all VPCs
aws ec2 describe-vpcs
List all subnets
aws ec2 describe-subnets

Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)

List all load balancers
aws elbv2 describe-load-balancers

Amazon Route 53

List hosted zones
aws route53 list-hosted-zones

Amazon ECR (Elastic Container Registry)

Authenticate Docker with ECR
aws ecr get-login-password | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin <aws_account_id>.dkr.ecr.<region>.amazonaws.com
List all ECR repositories
aws ecr list-repositories

AWS Systems Manager (SSM)

List managed instances
aws ssm describe-instances
Run a command on an EC2 instance
aws ssm send-command --document-name "AWS-RunShellScript" --targets "Key=instanceIds,Values=i-xxxxxxxxxx" --parameters commands="sudo apt update"

AWS Auto Scaling

List Auto Scaling groups
aws autoscaling describe-auto-scaling-groups
Update the desired capacity
aws autoscaling update-auto-scaling-group --auto-scaling-group-name my-asg --desired-capacity 3
Manually scale an Auto Scaling group
aws autoscaling set-desired-capacity --auto-scaling-group-name my-asg --desired-capacity 2

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

List all environments
aws elasticbeanstalk describe-environments
Create an application
aws elasticbeanstalk create-application --application-name my-app
Deploy a new version
aws elasticbeanstalk update-environment --environment-name my-env --version-label new-version

AWS Step Functions

List all state machines
aws stepfunctions list-state-machines
Start a state machine execution
aws stepfunctions start-execution --state-machine-arn arn:aws:states:region:account-id:stateMachine:MyStateMachine
Get execution details
aws stepfunctions describe-execution --execution-arn arn:aws:states:region:account-id:execution:MyStateMachine:MyExecution

AWS Glue (ETL Service)

List all Glue databases
aws glue get-databases
List all tables in a database
aws glue get-tables --database-name my-database
Start a Glue job
aws glue start-job-run --job-name my-glue-job

AWS SNS (Simple Notification Service)

List all SNS topics
aws sns list-topics
Publish a message to an SNS topic
aws sns publish --topic-arn arn:aws:sns:region:account-id:MyTopic --message "Test Message"

AWS SQS (Simple Queue Service)

List all SQS queues
aws sqs list-queues
Send a message
aws sqs send-message --queue-url https://sqs.region.amazonaws.com/account-id/my-queue --message-body "Hello World"

AWS Outposts(Managed on-prem cloud/On-premises AWS)

List and Describe Outposts

List all AWS Outposts
aws outposts list-outposts
Get details of a specific Outpost
aws outposts get-outpost --outpost-id <outpost-id>
List instance types in an Outpost
aws outposts get-outpost-instance-types --outpost-id <outpost-id>

Manage Outpost Resources

List all Outpost sites
aws outposts list-sites
List Outpost orders
aws outposts list-orders
List EC2 instances in an Outpost
aws outposts list-outpost-instances --outpost-id <outpost-id>

Deploy and Configure Outposts

Order an Outpost
aws outposts create-order --line-items "[{\"catalogItemId\": \"item-id\", \"quantity\": 1}]" --outpost-id <outpost-id>
Update Outpost configuration
aws outposts update-outpost --outpost-id <outpost-id> --name <new-name>

Networking and Storage on Outposts

List network devices in an Outpost
aws outposts list-outpost-network-devices --outpost-id <outpost-id>
List S3 buckets on an Outpost
aws s3 ls --outpost-id <outpost-id>
Create an S3 bucket in Outpost
aws s3 mb s3://<bucket-name> --outpost-id <outpost-id>

Deploy EC2 Instances in Outposts

Launch an EC2 instance in Outpost
aws ec2 run-instances --image-id <ami-id> --instance-type <type> --subnet-id <outpost-subnet-id>

Automate Outpost Deployments with CloudFormation

Deploy Outpost resources using CloudFormation
aws cloudformation deploy --template-file outpost-config.yml --stack-name my-outpost-stack

Monitor Outposts with CloudWatch

List Outpost-related CloudWatch metrics
aws cloudwatch list-metrics --namespace AWS/Outposts
Monitor CPU usage of Outpost instances
aws cloudwatch get-metric-data --metric-name CPUUtilization --namespace AWS/Outposts

Integrate Outposts with CI/CD

List all CI/CD pipelines
aws codepipeline list-pipelines
Start a deployment pipeline for Outposts
aws codepipeline start-pipeline-execution --name <pipeline-name>
Start a build process for Outposts workloads
aws codebuild start-build --project-name <build-project>
Deploy an application to an Outpost
aws deploy create-deployment --application-name <app-name> --deployment-group-name <group-name> --s3-location bucket=<bucket-name>,key=<app.zip>,bundleType=zip

Security and Compliance for Outposts

Create an IAM role for Outpost management
aws iam create-role --role-name <role-name> --assume-role-policy-document file://policy.json
List stored secrets for Outposts
aws secretsmanager list-secrets
Retrieve a stored secret
aws secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id <secret-name>
List AWS CloudTrail logs for security auditing
aws cloudtrail describe-trails
Detect security threats related to Outposts
aws guardduty list-findings

Delete or Deactivate an Outpost

Delete an Outpost (must be empty)
aws outposts delete-outpost --outpost-id <outpost-id>
Cancel an Outpost order before delivery
aws outposts cancel-order --order-id <order-id>

Azure

Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)

Create a VM
az vm create --resource-group <rg> --name <vm-name> --image <image>
List all VMs
az vm list -o table
Stop a VM
az vm stop --name <vm-name> --resource-group <rg>
Start a VM
az vm start --name <vm-name> --resource-group <rg>
Delete a VM
az vm delete --name <vm-name> --resource-group <rg>
Resize a VM
az vm resize --name <vm-name> --resource-group <rg> --size <vm-size>
Show VM details
az vm show --name <vm-name> --resource-group <rg>
Open a port on a VM
az vm open-port --port <port-number> --name <vm-name> --resource-group <rg>

Azure Storage

Create a storage account
az storage account create --name <storage-name> --resource-group <rg> --location <region>
Create a blob container
az storage container create --name <container-name> --account-name <storage-name>
Upload a file to Blob Storage
az storage blob upload --file <file-path> --container-name <container-name> --account-name <storage-name>
List blobs in a container
az storage blob list --container-name <container-name> --account-name <storage-name>
Delete a storage account
az storage account delete --name <storage-name> --resource-group <rg>

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Create an AKS cluster
az aks create --resource-group <rg> --name <aks-name> --node-count <num> --generate-ssh-keys
Get kubeconfig for AKS cluster
az aks get-credentials --resource-group <rg> --name <aks-name>
List AKS cluster nodes
kubectl get nodes
List all pods in AKS
kubectl get pods -A
Deploy an application in AKS
kubectl apply -f <file.>
Remove an application from AKS
kubectl delete -f <file.>
Delete an AKS cluster
az aks delete --name <aks-name> --resource-group <rg>

Azure Functions

Create an Azure Function App
az functionapp create --resource-group <rg> --name <app-name> --consumption-plan-location <region> --runtime <runtime>
List all Function Apps
az functionapp list -o table
Delete a Function App
az functionapp delete --name <app-name> --resource-group <rg>
Initialize a local Azure Functions project
func init <app-name>
Create a new function
func new
Run functions locally
func start
Deploy function to Azure
func azure functionapp publish <app-name>

Azure Networking

Virtual Network (VNet)

List VNets
az network vnet list --output table
Create a VNet
az network vnet create --name myVNet --resource-group myResourceGroup --subnet-name mySubnet

Network Security Group (NSG)

List NSGs
az network nsg list --output table
Create an NSG
az network nsg create --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myNSG

Load Balancer

List load balancers
az network lb list --output table
Create a Load Balancer
az network lb create --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myLB --sku Standard --frontend-ip-name myFrontend --backend-pool-name myBackendPool

Azure DevOps(CI/CD)

Azure DevOps Projects

List all DevOps projects
az devops project list --output table
Create a DevOps project
az devops project create --name myDevOpsProject
Delete a DevOps project
az devops project delete --id PROJECT_ID --yes

Azure Repos (Git)

List all repositories
az repos list --output table
Create a new repo
az repos create --name myRepo
Delete a repo
az repos delete --name myRepo --yes

Azure Pipelines

List all pipelines
az pipelines list --output table
Create a pipeline
az pipelines create --name myPipeline --repository myRepo --branch main --repository-type gitHub
Run a pipeline
az pipelines run --name myPipeline

Azure Monitor & Logging

Azure Monitor

List metrics for a resource
az monitor metrics list --resource myResourceID
List metric alerts
az monitor metrics alert list --resource-group myResourceGroup

Azure Log Analytics

List log analytics workspaces
az monitor log-analytics workspace list --output table
Create a Log Analytics workspace
az monitor log-analytics workspace create --resource-group myResourceGroup --workspace-name myWorkspace

Security & Compliance

Azure Security Center

List security assessments
az security assessment list --output table
Enable auto-provisioning for Security Center
az security setting update --name AutoProvisioning --value On

Azure Key Vault

List Key Vaults
az keyvault list --output table
Create a Key Vault
az keyvault create --name myKeyVault --resource-group myResourceGroup --location eastus
Store a secret in Key Vault
az keyvault secret set --vault-name myKeyVault --name mySecret --value "MySecretValue"
Retrieve a secret
az keyvault secret show --vault-name myKeyVault --name mySecret

Azure Policies & Governance

List all policy assignments
az policy assignment list --output table
Assign a policy
az policy assignment create --name myPolicyAssignment --policy myPolicyDefinition
Delete a policy assignment
az policy assignment delete --name myPolicyAssignment

Azure Active Directory (AAD)

List all users
az ad user list --output table
List all groups
az ad group list --output table
List all applications
az ad app list --output table
List all service principals
az ad sp list --output table

Azure Backup & Recovery

List all backup vaults
az backup vault list --output table
Create a backup vault
az backup vault create --resource-group myResourceGroup --name myBackupVault
List backup items
az backup item list --resource-group myResourceGroup --vault-name myBackupVault --output table

GCP

Compute Engine (VMs)

Create a VM instance
gcloud compute instances create <vm-name> --zone=<zone> --machine-type=<type> --image=<image>
List all VM instances
gcloud compute instances list
Start a VM instance
gcloud compute instances start <vm-name> --zone=<zone>
Stop a VM instance
gcloud compute instances stop <vm-name> --zone=<zone>
Delete a VM instance
gcloud compute instances delete <vm-name> --zone=<zone>
SSH into a VM instance
gcloud compute ssh <vm-name> --zone=<zone>
Open a specific port
gcloud compute firewall-rules create <rule-name> --allow tcp:<port>

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Create a GKE cluster
gcloud container clusters create <cluster-name> --num-nodes=<num> --zone=<zone>
Get credentials for the GKE cluster
gcloud container clusters get-credentials <cluster-name> --zone=<zone>
List cluster nodes
kubectl get nodes
List all running pods
kubectl get pods -A
Deploy an application to GKE
kubectl apply -f <file.>
Remove an application from GKE
kubectl delete -f <file.>
Delete a GKE cluster
gcloud container clusters delete <cluster-name> --zone=<zone>

Cloud Run (Serverless Containers)

Deploy an application to Cloud Run
gcloud run deploy <service-name> --image=<gcr.io/project/image> --platform=managed --region=<region> --allow-unauthenticated
List all deployed Cloud Run services
gcloud run services list
Update Cloud Run service to the latest image
gcloud run services update-traffic <service-name> --to-latest
Delete a Cloud Run service
gcloud run services delete <service-name>
Set environment variables in a Cloud Run service
gcloud run services update <service-name> --set-env-vars VAR_NAME=value

Google Cloud Storage (GCS)

List all storage buckets
gcloud storage buckets list
Create a storage bucket
gcloud storage buckets create my-bucket --location US
Upload a file
gcloud storage cp file.txt gs://my-bucket/
Delete a file
gcloud storage rm gs://my-bucket/file.txt
Delete a storage bucket
gcloud storage buckets delete my-bucket

Google Cloud IAM (Identity & Access Management)

List all IAM roles
gcloud iam roles list
List all service accounts
gcloud iam service-accounts list
Assign a role to a user
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID --member=user:EMAIL --role=roles/editor
Remove a role from a user
gcloud projects remove-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID --member=user:EMAIL --role=roles/editor

Google Cloud SQL (Managed Database Service)

List all Cloud SQL instances
gcloud sql instances list
Create a Cloud SQL instance
gcloud sql instances create my-db --tier=db-f1-micro --region=us-central1
Start a Cloud SQL instance
gcloud sql instances start my-db
Stop a Cloud SQL instance
gcloud sql instances stop my-db
Delete a Cloud SQL instance
gcloud sql instances delete my-db

Google Cloud Build (CI/CD)

List all Cloud Build runs
gcloud builds lis
Build and push an image
gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/PROJECT_ID/my-app
List Cloud Build triggers
gcloud builds triggers list

Google Cloud Deploy (CI/CD)

List deployment releases
gcloud deploy releases list --delivery-pipeline=my-pipeline
List rollouts
gcloud deploy rollouts list --release=my-release --delivery-pipeline=my-pipeline

Google Cloud Logging & Monitoring

Cloud Logging

List available logs
gcloud logging logs list
Read VM logs
gcloud logging read "resource.type=gce_instance" --limit 10

Cloud Monitoring

List available monitoring metrics
gcloud monitoring metrics list
List all dashboards
gcloud monitoring dashboards list

Google Cloud Networking

VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)

List VPC networks
gcloud compute networks list
Create a VPC network
gcloud compute networks create my-vpc --subnet-mode=custom

Firewall Rules

List firewall rules
gcloud compute firewall-rules list
Allow SSH access
gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-ssh --network=my-vpc --allow=tcp:22

Load Balancers

List all load balancers
gcloud compute forwarding-rules list

Google Cloud Security

Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP)

List IAP-secured applications
gcloud iap web list
IAP settings
gcloud iap settings get --resource-type=app-engine Get

Cloud Key Management Service (KMS)

List key rings
gcloud kms keyrings list --location global
List encryption keys
gcloud kms keys list --keyring my-keyring --location global

Google Artifact Registry

List all Artifact Repositories
gcloud artifacts repositories list
Create a Docker registry
gcloud artifacts repositories create my-repo --repository-format=docker --location=us-central1

Google Cloud Pub/Sub (Messaging)

List all Pub/Sub topics
gcloud pubsub topics list
Create a topic
gcloud pubsub topics create my-topic
List all subscriptions
gcloud pubsub subscriptions list
Create a subscription
gcloud pubsub subscriptions create my-sub --topic=my-topic

Google Cloud Backup & Disaster Recovery

List all backup vaults
gcloud backup vaults list
List backup policies
gcloud backup policies list

Google Cloud Policies & Governance

List policy tags
gcloud policy-tags list --location=us
List all organizational policies
gcloud resource-manager org-policies list

Google Cloud Scheduler (Cron Jobs)

List all scheduled jobs
gcloud scheduler jobs list
Create a scheduled HTTP job
gcloud scheduler jobs create http my-job --schedule="0 \* \* \* \*" --uri=https://example.com/cron