Top "Cloud" questions

Cloud computing is about hardware-based services involving computing, network and storage capacities.

What is the difference between scalability and elasticity?

I've heard many people using both terms interchangeably. However, in my opinion there is difference between them: SCALABILITY - ability …

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How do I make cloud-init startup scripts run every time my EC2 instance boots?

I have an EC2 instance running an AMI based on the Amazon Linux AMI. Like all such AMIs, it supports …

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Difference between cloud computing and distributed computing?

I wanted to know about the difference about cloud computing and distributed computing. I read an article about cloud computing …

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How can I access s3 files in Python using urls?

I want to write a Python script that will read and write files from s3 using their url's, eg:'s3:/…

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Is it possible to perform a batch upload to amazon s3?

Does amazon s3 support batch uploads? I have a job that needs to upload each night ~100K of files that …

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What's the difference between BigQuery and BigTable?

Is there any reason why someone would use BigTable instead of BigQuery? Both seem to support Read and Write operations …

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Login credentials of Ubuntu Cloud server image

I am trying to build a cloud infrastructure using VM's In the Openstack manuals, it is mentioned that the images …

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How can size of the root disk in Google Compute Engine be increased?

The root disk size in GCE is 10 gigs. How do I increase this? I cant find the option in the …

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Cloud Firestore: how to fetch a document reference inside my collection query and map it as a JSON value?

Let's say I have a collection of comments. Every comment object has a "doc ref" to the user who posted. …

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Amazon EC2 - Swap root instance store device with EBS device

I have an EC2 instance with "instance store" device as a root device. Now, I would like to attach an …

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