AMD EPYC on cloud

The new AMD-based instance types are made available in Nov 2018. It’s damn impressive. Here is a quick benchmark using openssl. The first is from EPYC, second from ARM, third from Intel.

Resize root disk on Azure VM

Azure hard-codes disk size and it cannot be changed during deployment. Resizing root disk on Azure is often a required task. Here is how a root disk can be resized. I learned this the hard way.

Why not Azure

I recently attended a 4-day training on Microsoft’s cloud platform. Quickly I learned why it should not be used if you’re serious about your business.

DigitalOcean: First Impression

My venture with VULTR ended prematurely, time to move onto a more popular platform – Digital Ocean. It’s one of the first to offer an all-ssd cloud offering. Its ability to provide HTML5-based machine consoles is very interesting. For what I know, this feature does not exist on more advanced platforms like AWS / Azure.

VULTR: First impression

I’s in search for a cheaper cloud service and VULTR is definitely one of them. My first impression isn’t so great as it took more than 20min to provision a CentOS 7 instance. I’m starting to doubt if the instance will ever come up, or they have really really slow SSD, or their provisioning module…

cloud cloud cloud.

So I’ve decided to give Microsoft Azure a try. Coming from AWS, it really is difficult to expect another cloud that can be comparative. I’m just going to say that up front.