Questions tagged [cloud-computing]
services provided on-demand and easily scale up and down
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Most efficient way to maintain versioned business rules files for an Amazon ECS service?
I have an Amazon ECS service that relies on configuration files that contain business rules. The business rules are changed periodically by non-programmers. Total size of the rules files is ...
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In cloud (say AWS), what is the difference b/w golden image and hardened image of OS?
I have tried to search a lot but all I get is their definitions which more or less sound similar.
I would like to know if they are same?
If not, what are specific differences?
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What exactly do these cloud architecture terms mean? [closed]
What exactly does Hosted-Application, Cloud-Enabled, Cloud-Native and Cloud-Agnostic mean? Pros, Cons, and when to use?
Unable to find a similar question on Stack Exchange.
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Operating two independent and competing clusters?
My organization has a redundant setup across 2 data-centers. During normal operations both data-centers are up and handling workloads. For whatever reason, the infrastucture team has decided to ...
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At which points in the process/stack is Cloud data not encrypted - Cloud Security
Assume an application developed in a PaaS public cloud environment. The application stores and processes some kind of sensitive data.
Encryption-at-rest seems clearly described already, and the option ...
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Can companies use already-purchased on-prem tooling in the cloud if they want to move to the cloud? [closed]
Companies spend a lot of money on tooling for on-prem. But then they often want to move to the cloud for its obvious benefits, but feel limited in their ability to do so since they already invested so ...
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Is a cloud / lambda function a microservice?
If each cloud function or lambda function is hosted and scaled independently would it be considered a microservice?
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Does DaaS stands for Desktop as a Service or Data as a Service? [closed]
I've seen some topics around DaaS on the web.
Some of them state that DaaS stands for Desktop as a Service, which basically is the offering of virtual desktops.
In the other hand, some topics state ...
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Is cloud computing mainly just a marketing term?
I understand the concept of cloud computing, but I'm curious why the term has become so exhausted the past several years. Servers have been around for a long time, and I fail to see how this is any ...
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What is the recommended way to start a long-running containerized analysis in R from NodeJS?
I have a frontend through which users can submit analysis requests, which are inserted into a database. These analysis requests are received in a NodeJS server using Postgres notify/listen. Using ...
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Strategies in cloud migration [closed]
A few months ago I found a presentation with slides about the benefits of migrating to the cloud. I think that the presentation was maybe quite old but I think that it started with arguing that ...
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Sensitive data and cloud storage
I've been reading about machine learning models deployment and pipelines and so far most of the sources suggest that the data should be ingested from some sort of cloud based storage or source, be it ...
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FaaS least cost routing - comparable billing model?
I want to implement "FaaS least cost routing".
It does not make sense to calculate the costs before every request, but calculating the cheapest provider on a daily or hourly basis would make sense.
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How to keep state alive between deployments
In our history, when we did a new release (deployment) any user who was "logged in" was logged out and that was obviously not ideal. Then I switched platform from a custom stack to a cloud provider ...
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How to organize projects in AWS?
In our team, we are using AWS as our main cloud provider and currently, we have 3 projects hosted on their platform.
We are about to have 2 more projects in the next weeks, but first, we want to ...
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