Introduction A cloud SLA (cloud service-level agreement) is an agreement between a cloud service provider and a customer that ensures a minimum level of service is maintained. It guarantees levels of reliability, availability and responsiveness to systems and applications; specifies who governs when there is a service interruption; and describes penalties if service levels are…
Cloud cost optimization is finding ways to run applications in the cloud, performing work or providing value to the business, at the lowest possible cost, and using cloud providers as cost-efficiently as possible. Optimization as a practice ranges from simple business management to complex scientific and engineering areas like operations research, decision science and analytics,…
Cloud disaster recovery (CDR) is a cloud-based managed service that helps you quickly recover your organization’s critical systems after a disaster and provides you remote access to your systems in a secure virtual environment. Cloud recovery helps businesses bounce back from natural disasters, cyber-attacks, ransomware, and other threats that can render all files useless in…
A multi cloud security allows organizations to deploy workloads across multiple cloud platforms, including both public clouds, such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, and private clouds. This provides much more flexibility than working with only one cloud platform, allows organizations to better manage costs and avoid vendor lock in, and improves resiliency. However,…
A serverless architecture is a way to build and run applications and services without having to manage infrastructure. In the early days of the web, anyone who wanted to build a web application had to own the physical hardware required to run a server, which is a cumbersome and expensive undertaking. Then came cloud computing,…
The client is part of a client-server architecture. Typically, a client is an application that runs on a personal computer or workstation and relies on a server to perform some operations. Mainly there are two types of clients namely, Thick & Thin Clients. In the computing field, the term client refers to computer software or…
SSH tunneling or SSH port forwarding is a method of creating an encrypted SSH connection between a client and a server machine through which services ports can be relayed. SSH forwarding is useful for transporting network data of services that use an unencrypted protocol, such as VNC or FTP , accessing geo-restricted content, or bypassing intermediate firewalls. Basically, you…
Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices. Service Fabric addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud apps. On the other hand, Kubernetes is detailed as “Manage a cluster of Linux containers as a single system to accelerate Dev and simplify Ops”. Azure Service…
Azure Service Fabric is Microsoft’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and is used to build and deploy microservices-based cloud applications. Fabric, in this context, is a synonym for framework. Azure CTO Mark Russinovich describes Service Fabric as a layer that understands “the binding between microservices and the underlying infrastructure that they run on.” Apps created in the Service Fabric environment…
For effective collaborations between the development teams and operation teams, there is a list of some of the best practices provided by DevOps which helps organizations in producing better products. DevOps speeds up how an idea goes from development to deployment. DevOps relies on automating routine operational tasks and standardizing environments across an app’s lifecycle.…
