Terraform live cost estimate using infracost free plugin

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Intro The cloud offers unlimited scalability at lower costs with the available resources. Companies enable their engineering teams to launch infrastructure as and when needed. However, since costs aren’t shown to engineers before Cloud resources are deployed, the real cost implications are unknown. That causes higher than expected costs and ballooning budgets over time, which …

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Explore Alibaba Cloud part 2: AliCloud CLI installation and few examples

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Cloud CLI tools are the Most direct and simple way to interact with a new Cloud platform, It is the perfect tool for executing simple and repeatable tasks which you don’t need to keep track off. Alibaba Cloud CLI tool which also manages Cloud resources (or stacks) is no exception. In this blog post, we …

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Explore Alibaba Cloud part 1: Intro to Alibaba Cloud

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Intro I always believed in the horizontal approach to learn the cloud rather than the vertical method. I’m just convinced there is more to learn when you open your perspectives, even if you lose the ability to narrow your expertise on one platform. That’s a little price to pay if you want to broaden your …

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Compare OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP application services

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Intro Common trend for cloud providers is to compare their services/offers with AWS (even AWS itself does it when releasing new features). But it seems that the top 3 reached a sort of agreement where they only acknowledge their respective direct competition & dismiss any player outside this oligopoly. Oracle Cloud or AliCloud being more …

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What makes GCP networking service different from other Cloud providers

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Intro During my preparation for the GCP Associate Cloud Engineer exam, I first got myself a free tier account which usually lasts 3 months. This allowed me to play with the Cloud Console as it’s the fastest way to get to know a cloud provider’s  services & offering. Being already familiar with AWS, Azure, and …

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