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Handling a Regional Outage: Comparing the Response From AWS, Azure and GCP

The Pragmatic Engineer

It’s rare that all three major cloud providers suffer regional outages, but that’s exactly what happened between April and July: 25 April 2023: GCP. A Google Cloud region (europe-west-9) went offline for about a day, and a zone was offline for two weeks (europe-west-9-a.) ( incident details ). 13 June 2023: AWS.

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Databricks SQL Serverless is now available on Google Cloud Platform

databricks

Databricks SQL Serverless is now Generally Available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)! SQL Serverless is available in 7 GCP regions and 40+ regions across AWS, Azure and GCP.

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Google Cloud vs AWS- Which is Better: A Comparison

Knowledge Hut

Thanks to cloud computing, services are now secure, reliable, and cost-effective. When we talk of top cloud computing providers, there are 2 names that are ruling the markets right now- AWS and Google Cloud. Hosting sites at AWS and Google Cloud has become fairly easy.

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Interesting startup idea: benchmarking cloud platform pricing

The Pragmatic Engineer

There is an increasing number of cloud providers offering the ability to rent virtual machines, the largest being AWS, GCP, and Azure. Other popular services include Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Germany-based Hetzner, France-headquartered OVH, and Scaleway. It’s one front-end dev and two part-time backend devs.

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Creating a Data Pipeline with Spark, Google Cloud Storage and Big Query

Towards Data Science

Companies targeting specifically data applications like Databricks, DBT, and Snowflake are exploding in popularity while the classic players (AWS, Azure, and GCP) are also investing heavily in their data products. Google Cloud Storage (GCS) is Google’s blob storage. I covered Spark in many other posts.

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Cloudera Data Platform extends Hybrid Cloud vision support by supporting Google Cloud

Cloudera

CDP Public Cloud is now available on Google Cloud. The addition of support for Google Cloud enables Cloudera to deliver on its promise to offer its enterprise data platform at a global scale. CDP Public Cloud is already available on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

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Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved

The Pragmatic Engineer

The company racked up huge bills for the likes of AWS, Snowflake, and also Datadog. Prometheus is part of the Cloud Native Foundation, membership of which indicates that it’s safe to build on top of Prometheus, as it’s actively maintained and will continue to be. And so, the $65M bill was for Datadog, for 2021.

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