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Introduction to Amazon Simple Notification Service TL;DR: AWS SNS is a web service that coordinates and manages the delivery or sending of messages to subscribing endpoints or clients. And makes it easy to set up, operate, and send a notification from the cloud. It provides developers with the highly scalable, cost-effective, and flexible capability to publish messages from an application […]
Read moreEFS (Elastic File System) vs EBS (Elastic Block Store) comparison in AWS TL;DR: Amazon EFS is an NFS file system service offered by AWS. An Amazon EFS file system is excellent as a managed network file system that can be shared across different Amazon EC2 instances and works like NAS devices. Amazon EBS is the block storage offered on AWS. An Amazon […]
Read moreEBS (Elastic Block Store) vs Instance Store in AWS TL;DR EBS volume is network attached drive which results in slow performance but data is persistent meaning even if you reboot the instance data will be there. Instance store instance store provides temporary block-level storage for your instance. This storage is located on disks that are physically attached to the host computer. EC2 Storage […]
Read moreSQS (Simple Queue Service) vs SWF (Simple Workflow Service) in AWS TL;DR: SQS is a service that allows you to queue messages giving you the ability to de-couple your environment. SQS will store and hold these messages in a highly scalable environment to be processed by another service or application as required. SWF is a different service altogether, it’s used to help […]
Read moreIntroduction to IAM Account Root User in AWS A root user is created during the AWS sign-up process All AWS accounts have a root user (only one) Has complete access to all AWS services and resources in the account Permissions cannot be restricted by any means (except if Service Control Policy attached to your account) Is accessed by signing in […]
Read more1. Overview Google Cloud Shell provides you with command-line access to computing resources hosted on Google Cloud Platform and is available now in the Google Cloud Platform Console. Cloud Shell makes it easy for you to manage your Cloud Platform Console projects and resources without having to install the Google Cloud SDK and other tools on your system. With Cloud Shell, […]
Read more1. Overview Google Compute Engine lets you create and run virtual machines on Google infrastructure. Compute Engine offers scale, performance, and value that allows you to easily launch large compute clusters on Google’s infrastructure. There are no upfront investments and you can run thousands of virtual CPUs on a system that has been designed to be fast, and to offer strong […]
Read moreThere are over 700 PowerShell cmdlets to help you automate routine and complex tasks in Windows Azure. Here’s how you can start taking advantage of what PowerShell has to offer in Azure. One of the most popular public cloud services is Microsoft Azure. Azure is an enormous infrastructure of servers in dozens of data center across the world. It […]
Read moreInstall the following components on your system to connect to your Microsoft Azure subscription using PowerShell: Microsoft Online Service Sign-in Assistant for IT Professionals RTW Select the appropriate version of your OS Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell (64-bit version) The 32-bit version is discontinued by October 20, 2014. You must be a tenant administrator (i.e. company administrator, global administrator) […]
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