Zonal Shift is a free service from AWS, which allows users to disable an Availability Zone (AZ) for resources. In this post, we will walk through what it does and observe the results.
Tag: cloud
Upgrade AWS RDS instance using blue/green deployment
Objectives:Use blue/green deployment to update an RDS instance from 8.0 to 8.4Check replication statusSwitch to staging (green) instance keeping DB endpointFall back if application cannot work with 8.4
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.
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.