3 posts tagged with "cloud"

I'm not 100% sure "Where I was when cloud became a thing", but I clearly remember life before cloud and life as it is now. It's a cloud world. And we're all just trying to figure out what that means for most of us and the companies we work for.

I never worked in a data centre, and had to contend with installing rack mounted servers. Build and configure them, patch them into the network and get them the all clear to be used by whichever company had ordered them. I mean, I did this on my home lab with ex-lease rack mounted serversto learn etc.

Monitoring AWS costs is tricker than you may think. Cloud cost management as a general topic is the bane of a lot of business expenses.

If you look at AWS Pricing page, you're going to have to get your head around a few things.

For example, your storage needs:

cool, sounds pretty straight-foward.

me: "I'll just have 2TB please."

not so fast.

which region do you want to keep your S3 buckets?

me: "oh, um, what's the difference?"

The main thing that comes to mind is 'latency' to where your users are being served. You generally don't want to serve content from the other side of the world. Also different regions can vary in AWS services available for that region if you need to use something specifically. Data sovereignty is also a consideration - are you allowed to store your users data outside your country?

But the main difference this blog post is worried about, is cost.

AWS have this little note on their "Avoiding Unexpected Charges" page that reads...

The part that says ominously "...appropriate steps for every region..." is funny because it sounds like AWS is telling you if you don't know what you're doing, good luck to you.