Let’s say you’re a programmer. You write a program which includes a piece of code in a programming language such as Python or Java. Where do you run that program? You’d run it on a computer. In fact, most likely, you’d run it on specialized computers called Servers that are designed to run 24/7 and they […]
Cloud Computing - Similar to Car Rental?
Cloud Virtual Machine - Cloud Server
Serverless Computing - Function as a Service (FaaS)
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Cloud Computing - Similar to Car Rental?
Cloud Virtual Machine - Cloud Server
Serverless Computing - Function as a Service (FaaS)
Cloud Regions and Availability Zones
Cloud Block Storage as a Service
Cloud File Storage as a Service
Cloud Object Storage as a Service
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This is Big Data
Cloud Desktop as a Service
Category: Amazon Web Services
What is Cloud Computing?
We hear the term “Cloud Computing” a lot in the media, advertisements, news and in memes. Cloud Computing has continuously been a trending term throughout the last decade. But what does cloud computing mean? Cloud computing is the offering of computing as a service. Consumers can pay the cloud computing service for on-demand use of […]
Amazon EMR and Google Cloud Dataproc: Top 10 Common Features
Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform are the two of the three market leaders in cloud computing. They both offer similar kind of cloud-native big data platforms to filter, transform, aggregate and process data at scale. Amazon EMR and Google Cloud Dataproc are Amazon Web Service’s and Google Cloud Platform’s managed big data platforms […]
My Path To AWS Certified Big Data Specialty
Amazon Web Services certifications are few of the most reputed in the field of Software Engineering. I successfully completed the AWS Big Data Speciality certification on Nov 25, 2019. This certification tests the candidate on two of the most wanted skills right now – Cloud and Big Data technologies. Prior to taking this certification, I […]
Amazon QuickSight – Visual Types Demystified
Amazon QuickSight is a managed business analytics service that’s part of the Amazon Web Services suite. Amazon QuickSight offers capabilities to create dashboards with visualizations and perform ad hoc analysis to obtain insights from the data. Amazon QuickSight works with several AWS data sources such as RDS, Aurora and Redshift, and also other data sources […]
Amazon EC2 Instances: M5 vs M5d vs M5a vs M5ad
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a service that offers compute capacity in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Amazon EC2 M5 Instances are the fifth generation EC2 instances that are ideal for General Purpose computing as they offer a balance of compute, memory and networking resources. M5 can be used as servers, caching fleets, app […]
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances: Most and Least Interrupted Instance Types
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances are one type of purchasing the EC2 instances, the other two types being on-demand and reserved instances. Spot instances are the cheapest among the three types and they are cost effective for running fault-tolerant workloads. Before starting to use the Spot instances, it’s important to understand that Spot instances will be […]