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8 Things You Can Do With Amazon Web Services Without Coding
There are many cloud based services provided by Amazon Web Services which require no coding knowledge at all. This includes services which cover a broad array of workloads including storage, email, machine learning, media, server backup and many more.
Amazon EC2 | How Much Does The Most Expensive Instance Cost?
The most expensive Amazon EC2 is currently the p3dn.24xlarge which costs $31.212 USD per hour when running a Linux OS and $35.628 per hour when running the Window OS on the instance in the US East (N. Virginia) region. The instance comes with 96 vCPUs, 768 GiB of RAM and two 900 GB NVMe SSDs.
Microsoft Azure | Can This Cloud Be Used For Free?
All Microsoft Azure services have a pricing model attached to them, however there is a list of services that are ALWAYS free if the usage of those services stay under specific limits. The free services include things like Azure CosmosDB, Azure Functions, Azure Active Directory and more.
Amazon Fargate | AWS Fully Managed Container Service
AWS Fargate works by having the underlying servers fully configured, hosted, patched, monitored and maintained by AWS. This enables a completely serverless experience for the customer to run distributed fleets of containers. The customer only pays for time that the container instances are used.
Azure Key Vault | Is This A Secure Service To Store Secrets?
Microsoft Azure Key Vault is designed in a way that prevents Microsoft from ever seeing the raw keys or secrets. The private data is processed with FIPS 140-2 level 2 validated HSMs. Multiple permission points must be passed to retrieve any secret information. Any access can be logged for review.
What Does On Demand Pricing Mean For The Cloud?
On demand pricing for cloud service providers is the pricing rate at which a given service is priced during the time period in which the service is used. A pre-negotiated contract is not required to receive on demand pricing for these services.
Amazon DynamoDB | Can This NoSQL Database Be Used For Free?
AWS Dynamo DB has an always free use tier that provides customers with 25GB of Storage, 25 provisioned Write Capacity Units and 25 provisioned Read Capacity Units per month at zero cost. This is enough free usage for 200 million requests per month.
Amazon DynamoDB | What is it used for?
Amazon DynamoDB is a managed NoSQL database and is used for storing an unlimited amount of unstructured key value or document-like data. Usage examples include user data stores, metadata caches, graph relationship stores, game states, leaderboards, user event streams, and many others.
Azure Blob and File Storage, What is the Difference?
Azure Blob Storage is an object store used for storing vast amounts unstructured data, while Azure File Storage is a fully managed distributed file system based on the SMB protocol and looks like a typical hard drive once mounted.
Amazon S3 | Storage Cost For 1 Terabyte of Data
In the AWS S3 US East Region (North Virginia) using standard storage, the first 50 terabytes will have a per terabyte cost of $23.55 USD per month. The next 450TB of storage will have a per terabyte cost of $23.53 USD per month. Every terabyte after that is an additional $21.50 USD per month.