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The cloud explosion has resulted in business in going overboard with moving their applications to the cloud. The cost effective, easy and manageable cloud services is the impetus required to switch to different cloud service providers.
As cloud services change the IT landscape, the risk of a cloud outage is keeping businesses from fully adopting the cloud. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google and other cloud service providers have faced many times outages of their cloud services.
Cloud computing can make your business run smoothly, free from costly data centers and servers; but it also adds additional IT costs. Keeping track of your monthly cloud computing bills isn’t easy. The typical bill is complex and made up of dozens of different factors, such as CPU core, storage units, RAM size and data transfers.
To keep your cloud spending whether in Azure or Amazon cloud, under control, you need a cost optimization plan. There are many ways an organization can optimize cloud, in terms of performance and cost. You need to strike a balance between them; shed any unnecessary applications; know where your users are; and negotiate rather than accept published cloud prices.
The cloud deployments today are based on virtual machines, but Containers offer another significant option for the users. The question of which Cloud deployment method to choose is entirely based on three primary factors:
Understanding the difference:
Virtual Machines and Containers represent two different ways to create virtual resources that run applications. The difference between containers and VMs is primarily in the location of the virtualization layer and the way that operating system resources are used.