Get ahead in the Cloud
Compute, Storage, and Networking
What are the fundamentals of Cloud Computing?
20% of the cloud computing market globally
What is the % of the market that Azure has?
AWS has 30% of the market, and GCP 9%
What is Cloud Computing?
Gmail is an example of what style of Cloud Computing Delivery?
What is SaaS (aka Software as a Service)
What certification would you recommend to all technologists interested in learning the basic concepts of Azure?
What is Azure Fundamentals
Infrastructure as a Service Acronym
What is IaaS?
Great than/less than....
Regions, Availability Zones, & Data Centers
# Regions < # of Availability Zones < # of DCs
67 Regions / 3 availability zones per region / 160+ DC per region
(MS plans to build 100+ DCs this year)
FaaS
What is Function as a Service - Serverless middleware/application engine that executes code without the task of managing servers or middleware.
Force.com or Azure Powerplatform are an example of what delivery method of Cloud Computing?
What is PaaS (Platform as a Service)
Who are the top 3 Cloud Providers by Market Share?
AWS, Azure, & GCP
What are three advantages of Azure over other Cloud providers?
1. Greatest number of industry/regional certifications of the cloud providers
2. Cost to run SQL services and .NET apps
3. Active Directory & Sentinel Security Services
600
What is the count of Azure Services available on cloud?
What are a couple of advantages that GCP has enjoyed a lead in?
AI Analytics compute
What percentage of workloads for large financial firms are currently running on public cloud?
What is ~30%
What is serverless computing?
The Cloud provider manages all the infrastructure - you bring the code, the cloud provider runs it, scales infrastructure, etc and performs an SLA to execute the code. Azure functions and AWS lambda are examples.
Cloud Availability Zones have independent power, cooling, and ____________
What is network routing services?
1 in __ websites use AWS Services on the Internet
What is 3? (Not to shabby for a bookstore right!)
How fast can you spin up compute/storage capacity on Cloud?
What are Minutes to Seconds?
How does Cloud Computing minimize huge capital outlays?
Consumers can use capacity on demand. You only pay for what you use.
What are workloads that people often start with on Cloud Computing?
Start where you have a business need for speed or powerful compute for data & analytics. Data and Analytics & Client facing websites are often places to start -
Data egress or data ingress costs is charged per click?
It's typically free to move data into cloud and there is a click charge to access data from cloud. (It's pennies per GB transfered.)
2006
When was Cloud Computing in its current state born on AWS?
What cost premium does on demand cloud resources carry vs. pre-paid reserved instances of cloud capacity?
What is a 50-70% premium of on-demand capacity vs. reserved capacity?
What does the A in Thomas "A" South Stand For?
"Archie?"
A cloud financial cost monitoring team responsible to drive optimization and financial discipline on cloud through automated cost alerts, budget limits, and automated management (e.g. turning off unused resources, etc.)
What is FINOPS?