AWS Server Types

One of the key question for cloud computing - what is the right size of cloud server type for my business?

We can do any kind of reservation; but what is the right/efficient way to do?

Cloud server reservation should be with the right balance of cost, server usage, billing type, performance, etc.  To make it simple, I'm going to explain with hotel booking use case.

Amazon Cloud AWS has 4 major types of server reservation.  They are

1. On demand
2. Reserved
3. Spot
4. Dedicated

On demand

• if we want to come and stay in any hotel with full price, it fits here.  User doesn't bother about the deal for the booking.
• In AWS cloud, it fits for short-term uninterrupted critical work.

Reserved

• it refers to the well planned stay for a long time.  Here, user analyses lot of discount options to book in advance
• Technically, it fits for any enterprise with long term cloud usage.

Spot

• it is about the bidding for the room in last minute, can kick out the booking at any time with the competitive booking price
• In AWS, it fits for the tasks bound to resilence of failure

 Dedicated

• booking the entire hotel.  Assume the user wants to accommodate the entire family/friends circle for the wedding ceremony; ultimately books the entire hotel without allowing others to join on those days
• In AWS tech space, it fits to share the enterprise licenses like BYOL (Bring Your Own License) along with infra privacy act.

Each option has a purpose and associated cost.  Of course, Dedicated mode is expensive; but family/friends privacy is guaranteed.  In the same way, AWS Dedicated model is physically dedicated to one user account with full control till network.

Tech Ref: https://www.virtana.com/blog/demystifying-terminology-aws-instances/

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2021 !

FSx in AWS Gov Cloud

 Amazon FSx, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.  FSx is a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems.

Amazon FSx provides two file systems to choose from: Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and Amazon FSx for Lustre. 

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed, highly reliable file storage that is accessible over the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. 

Amazon FSx for Lustre provides a high-performance file system optimized for fast processing of workloads such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial modeling, and electronic design automation (EDA).  

Amazon Location Service

This week, AWS is making Amazon Location available in preview form.  Amazon Location Service gives you access to maps and location-based services from multiple providers on an economical, pay-as-you-go basis.

This new service can display maps, validate addresses, perform geocoding (turn an address into a location), track the movement of packages and devices, and much more.

It easily set up geofences and receive notifications when tracked items enter or leave a geofenced area. Also, it can even overlay your own data on the map while retaining full control.

 Ref: https://aws.amazon.com/location/ 

Google is down

 Google was continue to down for last few minutes across the world (mostly).  

It was a breaking news live at Times of India too! Ref: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/breaking-news-live-december-14/liveblog/79713778.cms?utm_campaign=andapp&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=native_share_tray

It reflected how tightly coupled with them.  Google suffered major outage, which disrupted most of google services like GMail, YouTube, GMeet, etc.  Google search seems stable.  The services were down, starting at 11:56 UTC for about 38 minutes; then it got recovered.

Last century, electricity is technology fuel for every day life; now internet and google are mandatory for everyone.  What a transformation in global technology!

AWS mac

 This week, it's an exciting news in AWS re:Invent- Week 2.

Mac instances enable customers to run on-demand macOS workloads in the cloud for the first time, extending the flexibility, scalability, and cost benefits of AWS to all Apple developers.

Customers who rely on the Xcode IDE for creating iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Safari apps can now provision and access macOS environments within minutes with simple mouse clicks or API calls, dynamically scale capacity as needed, and benefit from AWS’s pay-as-you-go pricing.

Amazon EC2 Mac instances are built on Mac mini computers, and offer customers a choice of both the macOS Mojave (10.14) and macOS Catalina (10.15) versions.

AWS Proton

 AWS Proton is the first fully managed application deployment service for container and serverless applications. Platform engineering teams can use Proton to connect and coordinate all the different tools needed for infrastructure provisioning, code deployments, monitoring, and updates.

It solves this by giving platform teams the tools they need to manage this complexity and enforce consistent standards, while making it easy for developers to deploy their code using containers and serverless technologies.