Storage Services The demands placed on storage for digital information today are higher than ever before—and getting bigger all the time. It is no wonder that AWS offers many services in this regard. The list that follows highlights just some of the important services we will discuss further in this text: Simple Storage Service (S3):…
Introduction to the AWS Cloud
Introduction to the AWS Cloud It is time to examine (at a high level) just some of the service categories in the AWS Cloud and some of the services and tools in each. This section provides this vital introduction for you. Remember that we will be covering these services in some detail later in the…
Introduction to the Cloud 2 – CLF-C02 Study Course
Platform as a Service (PaaS): This “as a service” model provides a cloud infrastructure to the customer that enables the development and deployment of consumer-created or acquired applications developed for the cloud. The provider ensures that the required programming languages, libraries, services, and tools are available for the customer. Typically, this is done on a…
Introduction to the Cloud – CLF-C02 Study Course
Introduction to the Cloud To help us define the “cloud,” we turn to the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). You can find NIST’s very beneficial site at https://www.nist.gov. According to NIST, cloud computing is “a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks,…
Command line – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide
To perform a disk snapshot, we can run the following command:gcloud compute snapshots create SNAPSHOT_NAME –source-disk=SOURCE_DISK_NAME –source-disk-zone=DISK_ZONE Figure 4.50 – A command-line snapshot is created Snapshot creation takes a moment. After successfully creating the snapshot, we can proceed to delete snapshots. Deleting an instance snapshot Deletion of the snapshot is a straightforward process. Console In…
Resizing a disk – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide
A typical operation when working with instances is resizing a disk. We do it mainly when the disk is full and needs more capacity. Console To increase the disk size, we need to go to the storage section of the Cloud console and click Disks. Choose the desired disk you want to increase by clicking…
Command line – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide
The command-line interface consists of two steps. The first step is to create a disk, and the second is to attach it to the instance. To create a disk, we will initiate the following command:gcloud compute disks create additional-disk \ –zone=europe-west1-b\ –size=200GB \ –type=pd-balanced The next step is to attach the newly created disk to the instance:gcloud compute…
Console – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide
In the Cloud console, we will start by adding an additional disk: Figure 4.36 – Editing the instance in the Cloud console Figure 4.37 – The Additional disks section in the EDIT section of the instance Figure 4.38 – A table with a comparison of all available disk types in Google Cloud 5. Once all…
Windows Server instances – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide
Google Cloud allows us to use Windows Server images alongside Linux ones. Before initiating the RDP connection to the Windows Server-based instance, we need to change our initial password. To do this, click on your Windows Server instance and choose Set Windows password: Figure 4.31 – Setting the Windows instance password You can either reset…
Bastion hosts – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide
Bastion hosts are VMs that provide secure access to other VMs in a GCP network. They should be hardened to be more secure than other VMs in the network. This includes using strong passwords and SSH keys, keeping the software up to date, and disabling unnecessary services. The idea is to restrict their access to…