Cloud Services technology cheat sheet 1.

Compute / virtual machines :
Machine type pricing/billing
On-Demand, Spot Instances, Reserved Instances, and Dedicated Hosts
options :
Load Balancing / Auto scaling :
Kubernetes / Docker :
Serverless :
Management, monitoring, and
automation :
Authentication / authorization :
Object based storage :
Block based storage :
File based storage :
Archive storage :
Hybrid storage options :
Server and Client-side encryption options (key managed), EBS Volume
Data encryption :
(Bulk) Data transfer options :
Various best practices and setups: Back-up & Restore, Pilot Light, Warm
Disaster Recovery / backup :
Database options :
Data Warehouse :
Caching :
VPC, Virtual Private Cloud and subnets, API, NAT, and Transit Gateway,
Virtual network options :
Firewall options :
Content Delivery Network :
Dedicated private Network :
Domain Name System :
Regions / Zones :
Availability / SLA :
EC2, Amazon Elastic Compute. 6 different types of machines from
general purpose to GPU, Memory and CPU optimized
On-Demand a.k.a. Pay as you Go, and Reserved Virtual Machine Instances
Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling
ECS, EC2 Container Service, Firecracker, Fargate
Lambda
AWS Management Console, CLI, API, CloudWatch, CloudTrail,
CloudFormation (YAML, JSON)
Identity and Access Management, Active Directory
S3 (Buckets), Simple Storage Service
EBS, Elastic Block Storage
Elastic File System
S3 Infrequent Access, Glacier, Data archive
Storage Gateway
Encryption (Disk), TLS/SSL
Snowball (Edge (GPU) and Mobile), Import/Export Disk, CLI,
PowerShell, Rsync, Transfer Acceleration, DataSync, partner options
Standby, and Multi-Site. Partner options available
SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MariaDB, DynamoDB, Neptune
Amazon Redshift
ElastiCache (Redis and Memcached)
Virtual Network and subnets, API Management, VPN Gateway, Network
VPN options available, network Peering
Web Application Firewall, AWS Shield (DDOS), Firewall Manager,
Security Groups
CloudFront
Direct Connect
Route 53
18 Regions and 55 Availability Zones (AZ’s)
Depends on service and configuration. Up to 99,95 for EC2
Azure Virtual Machines. 6 different types of machines from general
purpose to GPU, Memory and CPU optimized
Azure Load Balancer and Auto Scale, VM Scale sets
Azure Kubernetes Service
Azure Functions
Resource Manager, Cloud Shell, API, Azure Monitor, Log Analyses,
Network Watcher, Application Insights, Automation (JSON)
(Azure) Active Directory, Active Directory Premium
Object based Blob Storage
Storage Disk Page Blobs, Premium Storage Disks
Azure Files
Cool Storage, Storage (Standard Archive)
StorSimple, Data Box
Server and Client-side encryption options (key managed). BitLocker
(Disk), Azure Storage Service Encryption, TLS/SSL
Azure Data Box, Import/Export Disk, AzCopy, PowerShell, Azure CLI,
plus various partner options
Azure Site Recovery, plus various partner options
SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos, Table Storage, MariaDB
SQL Data Warehouse
RedisCache
Peering
Web Application Firewall, DDOS Protection. Azure Firewall, Network
Security Groups
Content Delivery Network
Express Route
Azure DNS, Traffic Manager
54 regions. They started rolling out AZ’s in March of 2018
Depends on service and configuration. Up to 99,95 for VM’s
Compute Engine. 3 different types of machines, but custom configurations
are optional
Pay as you Go, Preemptible, and Commitment. However, pricing will
always be based on resource (vCPU and memory) consumption
Cloud Load Balancing, Instance Groups
Kubernetes Engine
Cloud Functions
Cloud Console, Cloud Shell, API, Google Stackdriver (Monitoring,
Logging, Diagnostics), Cloud Deployment Manager (YAML, JSON)
Cloud Identity and Access Management, Cloud Identity aware Proxy
Cloud Storage Buckets
Persistent Disk - various Compute Engine HDD and SSD options
Cloud Filestore (Beta)
Nearline and Coldline Storage
Egnyte Sync
Server and Client-side encryption options (key managed), Encryption by
Default (Disk), TLS/SSL
Cloud Data Transfer, Transfer Appliance, Cloud Storage Transfer Service
Multiple best practices and whitepapers available – Google Cloud Disaster
Recovery Planning Guide
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cloud Datastore, Cloud BigTable, Cloud Spanner,
YugaByte DB (Cassandra, Redis & PostgreSQL)
N.A. Done with various Big Data services
Cloud CDN and Cloud Memorystore (Redis compatible)
VPC, Virtual Private Cloud and Subnets, Google Cloud Endpoints (API),
Google Cloud VPN, Network Peering
Google Cloud Platform Firewall Rules (part of VPC’s), Cloud Armor, IP
Deny/Allow List (Beta)
Cloud Interconnect
N.A. VPN options only
Google Cloud DNS
17 Regions and 52 Availability Zones
Depends on service and configuration. SLO up to 99.99% for Compute
Engine VM’s

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