#Cloud
3 posts
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AWS Basics #1: Account, Region, and Availability Zone
Where the cloud and AWS sit, the account and root user, regions and Availability Zones (AZ) around the world, and the difference between global and regional services — the map you need before putting anything on AWS.
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Hardware Basics #9: Reading Cloud Instance Specs — Choosing to Match the Workload
Dissect an instance name like c5.xlarge into family, generation, and size, then read a spec sheet by vCPU, memory, storage, and network to pick a type that fits the workload. This post gathers the series' four-resource knowledge in one place.
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Hardware Basics #8: Cloud — From Owning to Renting, from On-Prem to IaaS / PaaS / SaaS
The shift of hardware from owning to renting, the difference between on-prem, colocation, and cloud, and how far IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS hide the hardware. The cloud seen through the lens of hardware ownership versus rental.