As I started work with AWS and I will spend with it some more time, I decided to take the exam AWS Solutions Architect Associate. A prerequisite for this exam is 1 year of experience with AWS. Full list of requirements can be found here. An exam itself is composed of 65 questions with single …
Category: Cloud
Azure Exams – AZ-303/AZ-304
After successufully passing AZ-204 few months ago, I’ve decided to try AZ-400. I started from Microsoft’s e-learnings which are pretty nice. However when I started with Whizlabs’es exams – I said “no way”. It’s too ops comparing to my job. Therefore, looking around about other valuable exams, I picked AZ-303/AZ-304 as the way to get …
Azure region in Poland
Microsoft just announced new region in Poland. The total investment plan is 1 billion USD! There is quite long movie about this plan which you can watch on YouTube.
Budgets and payments in clouds
How to set up payments and budgets in cloud provider is today’s topic. Usually providers offers two payment models: consumption based – monthly invoice for consumed resources reserved instances – paying upfront for reserved resources (capacity) Also interesting part is setting up spending limits. Alibaba Alibaba has very simple budget interface. In fact it allows …
Cloud comparison – intro
Under the series of articles I’m going to discuss the differences between main cloud compatitors: Alibaba AWS Azure Google (GCP) IBM Cloud Oracle This list is based on Gartner’s magic quadrant (2019) and the order is alphabetical. Looking into Gartner’s data, the leader is AWS and just few steps behind is Azure. Next is GCP. …
Changes to Microsoft Certs
Microsoft just announced changes to their exam including: AZ-103, AZ-203, AZ-300, AZ-301, AI-100. New versions (AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-303, AZ-304, AI-101) will be rolled out in March 2020. Old exams will be available for 90 days after new ones will become available. Also some other updates are expected (to other exams) but they were not announced …
AWS Glacier – why to avoid
I’m using Glacier for long term backups. I was pretty happy with upload process (setup, performance) until I provisioned a vault for a long term backup (1.5~2 years) and right now I was willing to get rid of it. Unfortunately you cannot just drop it when it is not empty. You have to remove all …
Learning to Azure AZ-203 exam
Here is a bunch of links which I’m using in learning to AZ-203 (and AZ-204) exam: Exam homepage Learning path related to materials from Microsoft (long read) 50 minutes intro (overview) on Azure Whizlabs on the preparations Youtube videos with basic knowledge by Adam Marczak Azure for architectes by Ritesh Modi (Packt, Oct 2017) – …
Spanner – GCP custom SQL solution
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers 3 SQL engines as a service: MySQL 5.6/5.7, PostgreSQL 9.6 and Spanner. MySQL and PostgreSQL are quite well known across the world. Spanner is completely new player – Google’s own product dedicated to handle thousands of requests. When we setup the database, it is required to specify number of nodes …
AWS Fargate – use domain to reach your containers
This time something from tips & tricks with AWS Fargate. Setting up service we can add it as publicly available. Thus there is no option to assign EIP or domain as container can be stopped or restarted any time with new IP. The only one way to achieve it is usage of ELB (Application LB, …