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Why Pentagon Cloud-Computing Contract Is a Huge Deal

The U.S. Defense Department is running a winner-take-all competition to choose a cloud-computing company to host its trove of information, perhaps including top national-security secrets, so that warfighters and military leaders can make data-driven decisions at “mission-speed.” Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. are among those vying for the multibillion-dollar contract.… Read more

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Azure Sphere is here – public preview and dev kits now available

It is my pleasure to announce the availability of the public preview of the Azure Sphere Security Service, Azure Sphere Operating System, and Visual Studio development experience for Azure Sphere. Today’s announcement marks an important milestone in Microsoft’s commitment to provide an end-to-end solution for securing any IoT device. In tandem with these releases, Azure Sphere development kits are immediately available from Seeed Studio.… Read more

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Azure South Central US Datacenter outage and HA vs DR

As I woke up early morning I read news about the Azure South Central US Datacenter outage caused by cooling problems. On Linkedin I saw multiple posts from Azure experts that DR should have been implemented for the applications and databases. There were multiple emails from customers in America and Europe asking for Disaster Recovery solutions for their application hosted in Azure.… Read more

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Updated: Microsoft Azure’s southern U.S. data center goes down for hours, impacting Office365 and Active Directory customers

A look inside a Microsoft data center in Cheyenne, Wyo. (Microsoft Photo) On September 4, 2018 around 230am Pacific Time, Microsoft identified problems with the cooling systems in one part of its Texas data center complex, which caused a spike in temperature and forced it to shut down equipment in order to prevent a more catastrophic failure, according to the Azure status page.… 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