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Azure vs AWS: How to Choose the Cloud Service Provider?

Existek

We suggest drawing a detailed comparison of Azure vs AWS to answer these questions. Azure vs AWS market share. What is Microsoft Azure used for? Azure vs AWS features. Azure vs AWS comparison: other practical aspects. Azure vs AWS comparison: other practical aspects. Azure vs AWS: which is better?

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Architecting petabyte-scale analytics by scaling out Postgres on Azure with Citus

The Citus Data

The RQV analytics dashboard relies on Postgres—along with the Citus extension to Postgres to scale out horizontally—and is deployed on Microsoft Azure. The Windows Data and Intelligence team had been using a Lambda architecture for the Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) cubing workloads that powered the RQV analytics dashboard.

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors 1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. Note that the only options for the first questions are AWS, GCP, and Azure. Databases, running code, you name it. What region?

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9 trends to watch in systems engineering and operations

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Knative vs. AWS Lambda vs. Microsoft Azure Functions vs. Google Cloud. The serverless craze is in full swing, and shows no signs of stopping—since December 2017 alone, the technology has grown 22% , and Gartner reports that by 2020, more than 20% of global enterprises will be deploying serverless.

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Why A VP Decided to Get Cloud Certified

Mentormate

That also means attending a lot of conferences over the years — including AWS reInvent 2017 — and I came away very impressed. It is increasingly important, however, that it must run on a.NET Core Runtime in a Lambda serverless environment, and that my web UX will be built in React, Vue, or Angular and run as a static site hosted on S3.

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Revisiting “Serverless Architectures”

Mike Roberts

Gojko Adzic has done some great speaking and writing on his experience here, and I included the link to his talk from late 2017. Lambda has configuration now and it has reserved capacity to help you avoid DoS’ing yourself. Lambda and Azure functions both now offer some amount of local-integration testing.

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Revisiting “Serverless Architectures”

Mike Roberts

Gojko Adzic has done some great speaking and writing on his experience here, and I included the link to his talk from late 2017. Lambda has configuration now and it has reserved capacity to help you avoid DoS’ing yourself. Lambda and Azure functions both now offer some amount of local-integration testing.