Posts Tagged ‘GCP’
TL;DR Amazon Web Services Certified Solution Architect Professional (AWS CSA Pro) took me a lot more time to study for than Google Cloud Platform Professional Cloud Architect (GCP PCA). They fundamentally test the same skills in terms of matching appropriate services to customer needs, but there’s just more of AWS, and greater fractal detail (that’s […]
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Tags: amazon, Associate, aws, certification, cloud, CSA, GCP, google, PCA, Pro
The great bandwidth swindle
This isn’t a new thing. I’ve even written about it before. But it seems to be coming up in a LOT of conversations at the moment. The price that cloud providers charge for egress from their networks to the Internet is staggeringly high. Or as Bryan Cantril put it in a recent episode of his […]
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Tags: aws, Azure, bandwidth, cloud, cost, data gravity, ec2, economics, egress, GCP, Lightsail, pricing, s3, transfer, VPS
Certification
TL;DR Knowing how the cloud works is becoming essential knowledge in the IT industry, and getting certification is a reliable way of ensuring that knowledge is consistent and tested. Background Yesterday this excellent cartoon showed up in Forrest Brazeal’s ‘FaaS and Furious‘ strip, it’s very timely as certification has been a hot topic at work […]
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Tags: ACE, amazon, aws, Azure, cert, certification, certs, cloud, CSA, CSA-A, exam, GCP, google, PCA, training
All three of the major cloud service providers have (or have announced) ‘have your cake and eat it’ versions of their services where data resides on premises whilst stuff is managed from a control plane in the cloud. AWS has Outposts (launched at re:Invent 2018 but still at the ‘sign up to learn more’ stage […]
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Tags: Anthos, aws, Azure, Azure Stack, cloud, GCP, google, Outposts
All of the major cloud providers now offer some means by which it’s possible to connect to them directly, meaning not over the Internet. This is generally positioned as helping with the following concerns: Bandwidth – getting a guaranteed chunk of bandwidth to the cloud and applications in it. Latency – having an explicit maximum […]
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Tags: amazon, aws, Azure, cloud, direct connect, direct peering, expressroute, GCE, GCP, google, Microsoft, network
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