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Amazon picks New York and Northern Virginia for HQ2

After running a year-long competition that drew interest from hundreds of cities and a number of states, Amazon has reportedly chosen New York City and Northern Virginia to split duty as its second headquarters.The Wall Street Journal reported late Monday that Amazon (AMZN) has picked New York’s Long Island City and Arlington County’s Crystal City neighborhoods, citing people familiar with the matter.Amazon declined to comment to CNN.… Read more

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Content Distribution with Amazon CloudFront

Consider a situation in which you’ve developed a groundbreaking website, and you would like to share your content with the world. The problem is that your hosting provider is based in New York, and you’re concerned that a user from a different region, such as Europe or Australia, won’t be able to view your content quickly and reliably. … Read more

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Amazon’s cloud-computing business is looking to space

Amazon’s public cloud could be bound for space. The cloud-computing division, Amazon Web Services, has been looking to hire people for an initiative involving space and satellite systems, though the company has never publicly discussed such a project. On Tuesday the website This Just In, which covers Amazon, published a report after spotting two job postings for the space program.… Read more

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What are my cheapest options for VMs on AWS, Azure and GCP?

AWS t2.nano or t3.nano (1 vCPU, 0.5 MB RAM) – $27/year Important Consideration t2 and t3 unlimited – https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/burstable-performance-instances-unlimited-mode.html Azure B1s (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM) – $71/year – cheapest Reserved VM B1s (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM) – $9.67/month A0 Basic (1 vCPU, 0.75 GB RAM) – $13.39/month A0 Standard (1 vCPU, 0.75 GB RAM) – $14.88/month Important Considerations Custom domains is supported on the D1 (shared) App Service plan but NOT for the F1 (free) App Service plans – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/app-service/windows/ F1 (Shared) App Service plan Allows for 60 CPU min/day Custom domains – No SSL – No Cost – free D1 (Shared) App Service plan Allows for 240 CPU min/day Custom domains – Yes SSL – No Cost – $9.67/month B1 App Service Plan 100 Azure Credit Units (ACUs) + 1.75 GB RAM Custom domains – Yes SSL – Yes Manual scale – up to 3 instances Cost – $55.80/month GCP f1-micro (shared 0.2 vCPU, 0.6 GB RAM) – $3.88/month ($46.60/yr) – free for first 12 months g1-small (shared 0.5 vCPU, 1.7 GB memory) – $13.80/month ($165.56/yr) n1-standard-1 (1 vCPU, 3.75 GB RAM) – cheapest 1 yr Committed Use = $21.84 per month ($262.08/yr) Important Consideration f1-micro and g1-small machine types, as well as the sole-tenant premium charge, do not allow for Committed Use discounts, but they are eligible for Sustained Use discounts – https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/sustained-use-discounts More Tips If you are a startup, sign up for the Startup Programs: AWS Activate for Startups – https://aws.amazon.com/activate/ Azure Startup Program – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/startups/ GCP Startup Program – https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/ AWS offers the most flexible purchasing options, for example: 100% upfront, partial upfront, or monthly payment plans.… Read more