What causes cloud outages and downtime? Misconfiguration? Software bugs? Human error? A look at Amazon, Azure and Google clouds to see what causes downtime.
What are the common causes of cloud outages?
Category: Cloud
Who has the best serverless platform?
Back in August 2017 I wrote a post about: Who has the serverless advantage? AWS Lambda vs GCP Cloud Functions vs Azure Functions. We were three years into commercial serverless offerings and there were still a lot of limitations. My main observation was: What really matters is the availability and consumption of other services within the cloud … Continue reading Who has the best serverless platform?
Office productivity – where Google and Microsoft have an advantage over AWS
Office productivity - this is one major area that AWS is significantly behind. So why does it matter?
How the cloud changes how developers should think about costs
From fixed pricing per month to billing per function call, the cloud changes how developers should think about their application development
Have the big cloud providers won the machine learning advantage?
At ReInvent last week, Amazon announced GuardDuty, which provides “intelligent threat detection and continuous monitoring” for your AWS workloads. With one click, you can enable real time analysis of events, network activity and DNS logs and begin to benefit from early detection of threats. It even has the capability to automate responses with Lambda triggers. … Continue reading Have the big cloud providers won the machine learning advantage?
The hidden costs of cloud
Cloud infrastructure introduces the model of paying for everything you use, which includes many things you might not think about. What are the hidden costs of cloud to watch out for?
The cloud portfolio effect
We tend to talk about specific cloud vendor products, usually when there is something new and exciting to discuss. Appealing to developers is the first step. It starts with hearing about the amazing new technology Google Cloud has just productised, the newest release of an open source framework or a compelling new AWS product you … Continue reading The cloud portfolio effect
Why does the interface matter? Cloud provider consoles compared
Developers are used to high quality design in consumer products, so they expect the same when using business products. Why is this important and how do the big 3 cloud providers compare?
Is Google Cloud experiencing challenges going upmarket?
Google's first day keynote did not go down well within the community, focusing on enterprise and with nothing really new to say, but it made up for it on the second day
Will Spotify be to Google Cloud as Netflix is to AWS?
Almost exactly a year ago, we heard that Spotify was working on a huge migration over to Google Cloud. They got off to a great start with a series of blog posts about their use of Google Cloud Pub/Sub, which I used to calculate what they might be paying if they were being billed at list … Continue reading Will Spotify be to Google Cloud as Netflix is to AWS?