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 …
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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 …
Google Cloud Platform – first look
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is Google’s cloud solution which is few steps behind the competitors (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure). At the beginning we get 300 USD for 1 year and a free tier which allows to run some small services like 1 micro Linux VM full month. That’s quite lot if we consider that AWS …