| | | 🔗 Stories, Tutorials & Articles | | | | | | | 3 Things in Azure I Wish GCP Have | | | | | In summary:
1) Azure Files share with SMB and NFS protocols allows you to pay only for what you use, unlike GCP's Filestore which requires provisioning with a minimum size of 1TB for HDD and 2.5TB for SSD, making it expensive for storing few GBs.
2) Azure Policy offers built-in policies for regulatory compliance such as PCI DSS 4.0 and SWIFT CSCF 2021, which can help with audit controls. No such alternative exists in GCP.
3) Azure allows you to set up deletion protection locks for all resources, unlike GCP's VMs-only option for deletion protection. |
| | | | | | | | | | Leveraging Defender for Containers to simplify policy management in your Kubernetes Clusters | | | | | This blog post discusses how Azure Policy for Kubernetes, deployed as part of Defender for Containers, can be used to manage policies for Kubernetes clusters. The blog explains how the Azure Policy for Kubernetes leverages Gatekeeper with Open Policy Agent (OPA) to ensure that cluster configurations comply with industry and company best practices.
The blog also highlights that organizations can configure policy parameters and exclusions to fit their organizational policies, and that the affected components can be viewed and exported using a PowerShell script. |
| | | | | | | | | | We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit ✅ | | | | | David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of Basecamp and creator of Ruby on Rails, shared in an article that his company is planning to fully exit the cloud by the end of the summer and expects to save about $7 million in server expenses over the next five years by doing so.
He explained that they spent around $3.2 million on cloud in 2022, with about $1 million of that going to storing 8 petabytes of files in S3. The remaining $2.3 million is what they intend to bring down to zero this year. They plan to purchase around 2,000 vCPU per data center (they run in two data centers), and will spend $600,000 on hardware and $720,000 on power and bandwidth per year, which is much cheaper than their current cloud expenses.
Tip: He encourages other mid-sized SaaS businesses to benchmark their rental bills for cloud servers against buying their own boxes. |
| | | | | | | | | | Microsoft Azure vs. Amazon Web Services: Cloud Comparison ✅ | | | | | In this article, Mark Fairlie provides a comparison of two leading Infrastructure as a Service providers, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
The article covers a comprehensive list of services offered by both companies, including app modernization, compute, gaming, data analytics, migration, networking, operations, security and identity, serverless, and storage. The comparison is aimed at helping businesses choose the right cloud-based infrastructure provider for their specific needs. |
| | | | | | | | | | Hosting Python Web Apps on Azure: A Price-Off | | | | | In this article, Pamela Fox, a Microsoft Cloud Advocate, shares her experience of porting her old Google App Engine apps to Azure and hosting them on a personal Azure account.
She compares the costs of hosting two low-traffic websites, pamelafox.org and translationtelephone.com, on Azure Container Apps with a CDN and Azure App Service with a PostgreSQL Flexible Server.
Based on her experience, she recommends Azure Container Apps for low-traffic websites in conjunction with an aggressive CDN to reduce costs. She also suggests using Azure Static Web Apps, which are entirely free, for hobbyist websites that change infrequently. |
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