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Meet Arjun again — the dev-turned-cloud architect behind the fast-growing ride-hailing app RideGo. He’s deploying his app on AWS. He creates a subnet with the CIDR block: 10.0.0.0/24 Now as an AWS Solutions Architect, Arjun knows /24 means: 2^(32-2...

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