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Time is one of those things we take for granted. You glance at your phone, it says 14:32, and 14:32 is the time. Everyone agrees. Job done. Except none of that is actually true. The time on your phone is a convenient fiction - an agreement we've
Picture this: You're ready to launch an EC2 instance, and suddenly, you're faced with an alphabet soup of options - t2.micro, t3a.xlarge, m6a.4xlarge, c6i.2xlarge, x2iezn.metal. With AWS offering well over 750 instance types, choosing the right one can feel overwhelming. Don'
As of February 1, 2024, AWS has introduced a new charge for public IPv4 addresses [1] . This decision reflects the increasing scarcity and rising acquisition costs of IPv4 addresses, encouraging users to adopt IPv6 for modernization and conservation. The charges for public IPv4 addresses apply across all AWS services that
Network Load Balancers (NLB) are critical in cloud and on-premise network design. NLBs are designed to efficiently distribute network traffic across multiple servers, ensuring that no single server bears too much load, preventing overloading and enhancing the reliability and availability of applications. Network Load Balancers operate at the transport
TLDR - As of October 2023, EBS Encryption negatively affects launch performance of instances. Amazon Linux 2023 is the fastest general-purpose AMI to boot. Mid-ranged fixed performance instance types boot in a similar amount of time. I often hear developers and system administrators complaining about slow start times for
As of October 2023, AWS (Amazon Web Services) boast over 700 instance types to choose from, the largest of any cloud provider; starting in August 2006 with the m1.small instance types with 1vCPU and 1.7GiB of RAM, technology has come a long way to the latest generation 7
In 2022, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) was recognised as a Visionary by Gartner Magic Quadrant . Over the past few years, I have been using OCI for various projects, such as Teach Stream , the educational remote learning platform and have been thoroughly impressed by the service and customer support. However, most
It's easier than ever to design and run web-scale platforms at a fraction of the cost of what was possible decades ago; however, designing for scale with new technologies sometimes requires a mindset shift to unleash the full potential of the cloud. In this article, we'