Virtual Machines in the Cloud
Learn about Amazon and Google cloud services, virtual machines start stop and restart phases, ID and IP address configurations, and NIC connection limitations.
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Traditional web services
At the time of writing, Amazon Web Services is far and away the dominant cloud platform. Google Cloud is gaining traction thanks to an attractive pricing model, but it has a long way to go before its workload approaches AWS. The world can change pretty quickly, though. While advanced cloud features definitely help with lock-in, compute, and storage capacity is more fungible.
It’s evident now that traditional applications can run in the cloud. No matter what we say about “lift and shift” efforts, they do run. Despite that, a cloud native system will have better operational characteristics, especially in terms of availability and cost.