Why Do You Need Cloud Cost Optimization?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5exzXaX9S2ey9yTxORkiPL Category: AWS Well Architected Framework The title of the post could also be read as - “Why don’t you want to save money?”. Well there it is, the answer to the question, you may not even read further. However, if you are interested to know certain aspects of AWS Cloud Cost Optimization then this …

AWS Redshift

Category: Database Amazon Redshift is a cloud-based data warehousing solution provided by AWS. It is an OLAP type of database service that runs complex queries across a huge dataset. These services are normally used to create business intelligence reports and in decision-making. Organizations that have large amounts of transactional data can process this data to …

AWS RDS

Category: Database There is a reason why database software exists, and why normal flat file storage is not used to store data that is generally stored in a database. The main reason being the time required to read and write data. Databases provide high read-write performance capabilities as compared to file operations. They are broadly …

AWS VPC

Category: Network AWS VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) provides a networking and security layer for the deployed AWS resources like EC2, RDS, and similar other resources. VPCs form the basis of any cloud architecture. By default, they are isolated from other AWS services or networks. Compared to the real-world networks, AWS VPCs abstract most of the …

AWS S3

Category: Storage Amazon provides object storage service in the form of S3 - Simple Storage Service. This service is used to store data in the form of objects or files. It is very easy to use S3, but at the same time looking at the number of configuration options provided by Amazon it can get …

AWS Elastic Block Store

Category: Storage While assembling a PC from scratch, we connect various components to build a working machine. One of the components we add for storage is SSD/HDD. AWS Elastic Block Store is the same for virtual machines/EC2 instances. Think of this as a removable hard disk for VMs. AWS EBS provides a way to add …

Deployment Woes

In a greenfield implementation, it is not challenging at all because you are the one defining the rules. But, planning an additional micro-service into an already existing landscape can get to you if above concerns are not addressed.

Docker – Networking

Containerization of applications gives a certain peace of mind to everyone. It’s great - the way applications can be wrapped into platform-agnostic containers which run on any system. Containers provide a generic way to run your applications on any host which makes them very unique. In my previous posts I talked about some basics of containers and …