Amazon Web Services (AWS) certifications corroborate cloud expertise and facilitate effective cloud initiatives. AWS offers certifications on several streams such as Solutions Architect, Networking, Database, etc. I completed the AWS Certified Database Specialty on Feb 21, 2022. This certification requires expertise with on-premises and AWS cloud-based relational and non-relational databases. Currently, I work predominantly in […]
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Serverless Computing aka Function as a Service
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]